Spinal commissural connections to motoneurons controlling the primate hand and wrist

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9614-9625

  Soteropoulos, Demetris S ^a   Edgley, Steve A ^b   Baker, Stuart N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; WRIST;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRIMATES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; WRIST;

EID: 84878474156     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0269-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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