Intraspinally mediated state-dependent enhancement of motoneurone excitability during fictive scratch in the adult decerebrate cat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2839-2857

  Power, Kevin E ^a   McCrea, David A ^b   Fedirchuk, Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; ANIMAL; CAT; DECEREBRATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 78650921039     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.188722     Document Type: Article

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