Optogenetic activation of excitatory premotor interneurons is sufficient to generate coordinated locomotor activity in larval zebrafish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 134-139

  Eklöf Ljunggren, Emma ^a   Haupt, Sabine ^a   Ausborn, Jessica ^a   Ampatzis, Konstantinos ^a   El Manira, Abdeljabbar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 AMINO 2 (3 CARBOXYPROPYL) 6 (4 METHOXYPHENYL) PYRIDAZINIUM BROMIDE; STRYCHNINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CHX10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SWIMMING; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 84891433307     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4087-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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