Locomotor rhythm maintenance: Electrical coupling among premotor excitatory interneurons in the brainstem and spinal cord of young Xenopus tadpoles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1677-1693

  Li, Wen Chang ^a,b   Roberts, Alan ^a   Soffe, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; HEPTANOL; PROTEIN 18 BETA GA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TADPOLE; ANIMAL CELL; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL COUPLING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY DESCENDING INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RHYTHM; SPIKE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; XENOPUS;

EID: 65249107636     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.166942     Document Type: Article

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