Spinal interneurons differentiate sequentially from those driving the fastest swimming movements in larval zebrafish to those driving the slowest ones

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 13566-13577

  McLean, David L ^a,b   Fetcho, Joseph R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; PROTEIN KAEDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; INTERNEURON; LARVAL STAGE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SWIMMING; ZEBRA FISH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BIOMECHANICS; CELL SIZE; INTERNEURONS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGENESIS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 70350523928     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3277-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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