Activity-Dependent Changes in Extracellular Ca2+ and K+ Reveal Pacemakers in the Spinal Locomotor-Related Network

Neuron

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1047-1054

  Brocard, Frédéric ^a   Shevtsova, Natalia A ^b   Bouhadfane, Mouloud ^a   Tazerart, Sabrina ^a   Heinemann, Uwe ^c   Rybak, Ilya A ^b   Vinay, Laurent ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CALCIUM; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84875484864     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.01.026     Document Type: Article

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