Premotor spinal network with balanced excitation and inhibition during motor patterns has high resilience to structural division

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2774-2784

  Petersen, Peter C ^a   Vestergaard, Mikkel ^a   Jensen, Kristian H R ^a   Berg, Rune W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Balanced; Half center; Network; Reciprocal; Spinal; Turtle

Indexed keywords

BALANCED; HALF-CENTER; NETWORK; RECIPROCAL; SPINAL; TURTLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TURTLES;

EID: 84894028951     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3349-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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