EphA4-mediated ipsilateral corticospinal tract misprojections are necessary for bilateral voluntary movements but not bilateral stereotypic locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5211-5221

  Serradj, Najet ^a   Paixao, Sónia ^b   Sobocki, Tomasz ^a   Feinberg, Mitchell ^a   Klein, Rudiger ^a   Kullander, Klas ^b,c   Martin, John H ^d  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Germany 3 Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology   (Germany)

^d SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; EphA4; Locomotion; Motor cortex; Reaching

Indexed keywords

CARPROFEN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EMX1;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GRID TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERANT BEHAVIORAL TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TREADMILL TEST; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CORTICOSPINAL TRACT; EPHA4; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; REACHING;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE DELETION; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECEPTOR, EPHA4;

EID: 84899491205     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4848-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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