Systematic shifts in the balance of excitation and inhibition coordinate the activity of axial motor pools at different speeds of locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 14046-14054

  Kishore, Sandeep ^a   Bagnall, Martha W ^a,b   McLean, David L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitation; Inhibition; Locomotion; Motoneurons; Recruitment; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; SPIKE WAVE; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SWIMMING; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84908004700     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0514-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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