An intersegmental neuronal architecture for spinal wave propagation under deletions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 33, 2009, Pages 10254-10263

  Pérez, Toni ^a   Tapia, Jesus A ^d   Mirasso, Claudio R ^a   García Ojalvo, Jordi ^b   Quevedo, Jorge ^c   Cuellar, Carlos A ^d   Manjarrez, Elias ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CATS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TOUCH;

EID: 69049098919     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1737-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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