Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

Nature Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1161-1165

  Llewellyn, Michael E ^a   Thompson, Kimberly R ^a   Deisseroth, Karl ^a,b   Delp, Scott L ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEIN; LAMININ; RHODOPSIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR UNIT; MOUSE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL STIMULATION; OPTICS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELAXATION TIME; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; RHODOPSIN;

EID: 77957821588     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2228     Document Type: Article

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