Preferred locomotor phase of activity of lumbar interneurons during air-stepping in subchronic spinal cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1011-1022

  AuYong, Nicholas ^a   Ollivier Lanvin, Karen ^a   Lemay, Michel A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Modularity; Motor primitives; Spinal cord injury; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; INTERNEURON; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; FEMALE; GAIT; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR NEURONS; PHYSICAL EXERTION;

EID: 79955157971     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00523.2010     Document Type: Article

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