Bilateral postsynaptic actions of pyramidal tract and reticulospinal neurons on feline erector spinae motoneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 858-869

  Galea, Mary Pauline ^a,b   Hammar, Ingela ^a   Nilsson, Elin ^a   Jankowska, Elzbieta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; LAMINECTOMY; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; STROKE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LAMINECTOMY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 75749145863     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4859-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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