Deconstruction of Corticospinal Circuits for Goal-Directed Motor Skills

Cell

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 440-455.e14

  Wang, Xuhua ^a   Liu, Yuanyuan ^a   Li, Xinjian ^b   Zhang, Zicong ^a   Yang, Hengfu ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Williams, Philip R ^a   Alwahab, Noaf S A ^a   Kapur, Kush ^a   Yu, Bin ^a   Zhang, Yiming ^a   Chen, Mengying ^a   Ding, Haixia ^a   Gerfen, Charles R ^b   Wang, Kuan Hong ^b   He, Zhigang ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

corticospinal neurons; food pellet retrieval task; goal directed motor skills; in vivo imaging; motor cortex; muscle control; premotor neurons

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FORELIMB; JOINT; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

CALCIUM;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CERVICAL CORD; FORELIMB; JOINTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 85029710884     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.08.014     Document Type: Article

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