Proprioceptive Coupling within Motor Neurons Drives C. elegans Forward Locomotion

Neuron

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 750-761

  Wen, Quan ^a   Po, Michelle D ^c   Hulme, Elizabeth ^b   Chen, Sway ^a   Liu, Xinyu ^b   Kwok, Sen Wai ^b   Gershow, Marc ^a   Leifer, Andrew M ^a   Butler, Victoria ^d,e   Fang Yen, Christopher ^a,f   Kawano, Taizo ^c   Schafer, William R ^d   Whitesides, George ^b   Wyart, Matthieu ^g   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^e   Zhen, Mei ^c   Samuel, Aravinthan D T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; LOCOMOTION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; COLOR; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HALORHODOPSINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IVERMECTIN; KYMOGRAPHY; LASER THERAPY; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CELLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; OPTOGENETICS; PERIODICITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; RHODOPSIN; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84869773058     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.039     Document Type: Article

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