Locomotion
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nitric oxide potentiation of locomotor activity in the spinal cord of the lamprey.

19 Oct 2009 To understand the intrinsic operation of spinal networks generating locomotion, we need to not only characterize the constituent neurons and their connectivity, but also determine the role of intrinsic modulation in shaping the final motor output. ... Read more...

Functional recovery after lesion of a central pattern generator.

19 Oct 2009 In cases of neuronal injury when regeneration is restricted, functional recovery can occur through reorganization of the remaining neural circuitry. We found an example of such recovery in the central pattern generator (CPG) for the escape swim of ... Read more...

Cocaine exposure in utero alters synaptic plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex of postnatal rats.

5 Oct 2009 Cocaine exposure during pregnancy causes abnormality in fetal brain development, leading to cognitive dysfunction of the offspring, but the underlying cellular mechanism remains mostly unclear. In this study, we examined synaptic functions in the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Locomotion'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nitric oxide potentiation of locomotor activity in the spinal cord of the lamprey. 19 Oct 2009
• Functional recovery after lesion of a central pattern generator. 19 Oct 2009
• Cocaine exposure in utero alters synaptic plasticity in the medial prefrontal cortex of postnatal rats. 5 Oct 2009
• Reexamining human origins in light of Ardipithecus ramidus. 30 Sep 2009
• The great divides: Ardipithecus ramidus reveals the postcrania of our last common ancestors with African apes. 30 Sep 2009
• Combining prehension and propulsion: the foot of Ardipithecus ramidus. 30 Sep 2009
• The pelvis and femur of Ardipithecus ramidus: the emergence of upright walking. 30 Sep 2009
• Careful climbing in the Miocene: the forelimbs of Ardipithecus ramidus and humans are primitive. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids. 30 Sep 2009
• Ardipithecus ramidus. A new kind of ancestor: Ardipithecus unveiled. 30 Sep 2009
• Discriminative learning for dynamic state prediction. 29 Sep 2009
• Robust multiperson tracking from a mobile platform. 29 Sep 2009
• A Mixture of Transformed Hidden Markov Models for elastic motion estimation. 29 Sep 2009
• Human action recognition by semilatent topic models. 29 Sep 2009
• Automated analysis of cellular signals from large-scale calcium imaging data. 22 Sep 2009
• UNC-108/RAB-2 and its effector RIC-19 are involved in dense core vesicle maturation in Caenorhabditis elegans. 19 Sep 2009
• Impaired dense core vesicle maturation in Caenorhabditis elegans mutants lacking Rab2. 19 Sep 2009
• Transformation of nonfunctional spinal circuits into functional states after the loss of brain input. 18 Sep 2009
• Optogenetic dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord. 15 Sep 2009
• Activity of Hb9 interneurons during fictive locomotion in mouse spinal cord. 14 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Locomotion'

Definition: Movement or the ability to move from one place or another. It can refer to humans, vertebrate or invertebrate animals, and microorganisms.

Descriptor UI: D008124

Alternative terms: Locomotion; Locomotions;

Related Mesh Headings: Gait;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: G07.700.560.500; G11.427.590.530.568;

Technical Notes: differentiate LOCOMOTION (getting from one point to another) from GAIT (how a man or major animal gets there), MOVEMENT (without necessarily locomoting), MOTOR ACTIVITY (movement assoc with behavior), WALKING (purposeful locomotion to get somewhere or for recreation, fitness or competition); CELL LOCOMOTION see CELL MOVEMENT is available