Distinct Limb and Trunk Premotor Circuits Establish Laterality in the Spinal Cord

Neuron

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 131-144

  Goetz, Cyrill ^a,b   Pivetta, Chiara ^a,b   Arber, Silvia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INTERNEURON; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; TRUNK; ANIMAL; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COMMISSURAL INTERNEURONS; DENDRITES; EXTREMITIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TORSO;

EID: 84920769097     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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