Five types of nonspiking interneurons in local pattern-generating circuits of the crayfish swimmeret system

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 344-357

  Smarandache Wellmann, Carmen ^a   Weller, Cynthia ^b   Wright, Terrence M ^b   Mulloney, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graded transmission; Local circuit; Motor pattern generation; Nonspiking neurons; Quantitative morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRAYFISH; INHIBITOR OF POWER STROKE NEURON; INHIBITOR OF RETURN STROKE NEURON; INTERNEURON; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; INTERNEURONS;

EID: 84880173743     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00079.2013     Document Type: Article

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