Spinal premotor interneurons mediate dynamic and static motor commands for precision grip in monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8850-8860

  Takei, Tomohiko ^a,b   Seki, Kazuhiko ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAPLORHINI; INTERNEURON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; INTERNEURONS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84877771758     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4032-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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