Multifunctional and specialized spinal interneurons for turtle limb movements

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 119-132

  Berkowitz, Ari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

central pattern generator; dedicated; flexion reflex; locomotion; scratching; swimming

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INTERNEURON; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL NERVE; SWIMMING; TURTLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DECISION MAKING; DENDRITE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INNERVATION; LIMB; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPINAL CORD;

TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DECISION MAKING; DENDRITES; EXTREMITIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PRIMATES; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; TURTLES;

EID: 77954597165     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05428.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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