A Cluster of Cholinergic Premotor Interneurons Modulates Mouse Locomotor Activity

Neuron

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 645-662

  Zagoraiou, Laskaro ^a   Akay, Turgay ^a   Martin, James F ^b   Brownstone, Robert M ^c   Jessell, Thomas M ^a   Miles, Gareth B ^d  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SOXB2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TAU PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 71149108487     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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