Synaptic polarity of the interneuron circuit controlling C. Elegans locomotion

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Rakowski, Franciszek ^a   Srinivasan, Jagan ^b   Sternberg, Paul W ^c   Karbowski, Jan ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

C. Elegans; Laser ablations; Locomotion; Locomotory interneurons; Neural circuit modeling; Optimization; Synaptic polarity

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; ELEGANS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; LOCOMOTORY INTERNEURONS; NEURAL CIRCUITS; SYNAPTIC POLARITY; THEORETICAL MODELING;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; LASER ABLATION; NEURONS; OPTIMIZATION;

TIMING CIRCUITS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GAP JUNCTION; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POLARITY;

EID: 84886303517     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00128     Document Type: Article

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