Postnatal development of a segmental switch enables corticospinal tract transmission to spinal forelimb motor circuits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2277-2288

  Chakrabarty, Samit ^a,c   Martin, John H ^a,b,c  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FORELIMB; INTERNEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECORDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; AXONS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CATS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 76649133288     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5286-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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