Degradation of mouse locomotor pattern in the absence of proprioceptive sensory feedback

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16877-16882

  Akay, Turgay ^a,e   Tourtellotte, Warren G ^b   Arber, Silvia ^c,d   Jessell, Thomas M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Pattern generation; Proprioception; Sensory feedback

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; INTERNEURON; JOINT FUNCTION; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK; TENDON RECEPTOR; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PROPRIOCEPTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEEDBACK; LOCOMOTION; MICE; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 84912074342     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419045111     Document Type: Article

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