Genetic analysis of left-right coordination of locomotion

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-35

  Bernhardt, Nadine Rabe ^a   Memic, Fatima ^a   Kullander, Klas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Central pattern generator; Neuronal network; Physiology; Review; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NETRIN 1; NETRIN-1; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SEMAPHORIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SLIT HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, EPH FAMILY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEMAPHORINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878776515     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/4085     Document Type: Review

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