Population spatiotemporal dynamics of spinal intermediate zone interneurons during air-stepping in adult spinal cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1943-1953

  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; Rhythm generation; Spinal cord injury; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURON; MULTIUNIT ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 80054016160     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00258.2011     Document Type: Article

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