Plasticity of rat motoneuron rhythmic firing properties with varying levels of afferent and descending inputs

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 265-272

  MacDonell, C W ^a   Button, D C ^c   Beaumont, E ^d   Cormery, B ^e   Gardiner, P F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Exercise; Frequency current relation

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEADY STATE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84255171192     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00122.2011     Document Type: Article

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