Competition with primary sensory afferents drives remodeling of corticospinal axons in mature spinal motor circuits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 193-203

  Jiang, Yu Qiu ^a   Zaaimi, Boubker ^a   Martin, John H ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Corticospinal tract; Motor cortex; Proprioceptive afferents; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ANIMAL; AXON; EFFERENT NERVE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE NET; NERVE REGENERATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION;

EID: 84953743338     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3441-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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