Neuronal correlates of the dominant role of GABAergic transmission in the developing mouse locomotor circuitry

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1279, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-53

  Ziskind Conhaim, Lea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Commissural interneurons; GABA; Inhibitory transmission; Locomotion; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXCITATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84875599750     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12064     Document Type: Article

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