Distinct descending motor cortex pathways and their roles in movement

Nature

Volumn 563, Issue 7729, 2018, Pages 79-84

  Economo, Michael N ^a   Viswanathan, Sarada ^a   Tasic, Bosiljka ^b   Bas, Erhan ^a   Winnubst, Johan ^a   Menon, Vilas ^a   Graybuck, Lucas T ^b   Nguyen, Thuc Nghi ^b   Smith, Kimberly A ^b   Yao, Zizhen ^b   Wang, Lihua ^a   Gerfen, Charles R ^c   Chandrashekar, Jayaram ^a   Zeng, Hongkui ^b   Looger, Loren L ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXON; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN STEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

GLUTAMIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN STEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85055816657     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0642-9     Document Type: Article

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