Bringing up the rear: New premotor interneurons add regional complexity to a segmentally distributed motor pattern

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2201-2215

  Wenning, Angela ^a   Norris, Brian J ^a,b   Doloc Mihu, Anca ^a   Calabrese, Ronald L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Constriction pattern; Fictive motor pattern; Heartbeat; Leech

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART NERVE; HEART RHYTHM; INTERNEURON; LEECH; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; PREMOTOR INTERNEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HEART; INTERNEURONS; ISOQUINOLINES; LEECHES; MOTOR NEURONS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROANATOMY; PERIODICITY; SYNAPSES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80755130195     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00519.2011     Document Type: Article

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