In mice lacking V2a interneurons, gait depends on speed of locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 7098-7109

  Crone, Steven A ^a   Zhong, Guisheng ^b   Harris Warrick, Ronald ^b   Sharma, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHX10 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT; GENE; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RUNNING; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STANDING; VELOCITY; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHOLINESTERASES; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; EXERCISE TEST; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 66149168576     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1206-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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