Changes in the spinal segmental motor output for stepping during development from infant to adult

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3025-3036

  Ivanenko, Yuri P ^a   Dominici, Nadia ^a,b,c   Cappellini, Germana ^a   Di Paolo, Ambrogio ^b   Giannini, Carlo ^d   Poppele, Richard E ^e   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; WALKING;

ADULT; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84873632436     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2722-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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