From circuits to behaviour: motor networks in vertebrates

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 116-125

  Garcia Campmany, Lidia ^a   Stam, Floor J ^a   Goulding, Martyn ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; PLEXIN; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3E; SEROTONIN; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PEA3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

BREATHING; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; GENETIC REGULATION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY; RESPIRATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 76749107387     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.01.002     Document Type: Review

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