Measured motion: searching for simplicity in spinal locomotor networks

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 572-586

  Grillner, Sten ^a   Jessell, Thomas M ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Molecular Biophysics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHX10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HB9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

BODY MOVEMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE INACTIVATION; INTERNEURON; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 72549088712     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.10.011     Document Type: Review

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