Rhythmic activity of feline dorsal and ventral spinocerebellar tract neurons during fictive motor actions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 375-388

  Fedirchuk, Brent ^b   Stecina, Katinka ^a   Kristensen, Kasper Kyhl ^a   Zhang, Mengliang ^a   Meehan, Claire F ^a   Bennett, David J ^c   Hultborn, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Clarke's column; Locomotion; Scratch; Sensorimotor integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT; TREADMILL; VENTRAL SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACTS;

EID: 84872379278     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00649.2012     Document Type: Article

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