Descending brain neurons in larval lamprey: Spinal projection patterns and initiation of locomotion

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 527-541

  Shaw, Albert C ^a   Jackson, Adam W ^a   Holmes, Tamra ^a   Thurman, Suzie ^a   Davis, G R ^a   McClellan, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Command systems; Descending pathways; Locomotor; Locomotor regions; Reticulospinal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MAUTHNER CELL; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; VAGUS NERVE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; LARVA; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PETROMYZON; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 77954657713     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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