Extensor motoneurone properties are altered immediately before and during fictive locomotion in the adult decerebrate rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 593, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2327-2342

  Macdonell, C W ^a   Power, K E ^a   Chopek, J W ^a   Gardiner, K R ^a   Gardiner, P F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIAL NERVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HINDLIMB; INNERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84929503958     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270239     Document Type: Article

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