Functional organization of V2a-related locomotor circuits in the rodent spinal cord

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 85-93

  Dougherty, Kimberly J ^a   Kiehn, Ole ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chx10; interneurons; locomotion; spinal cord; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FISH; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RODENT; SPINAL CORD; SWIMMING; VELOCITY; WALKING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LARVA; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; ZEBRA FISH;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

CHX10 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; FISHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RODENTIA; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 77954613713     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05502.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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