Role of Spinal Interneurons in Locomotion

Buchanan, James T.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• Type: First Independent Research Support & Transition (FIRST) Awards (R29)
• Project #: 3R29NS028369-03S1
• Application #: 3478003
• Study Section: Neurology B Subcommittee 2 (NEUB)
• Project Start: 1989-09-01
• Project End: 1994-08-31
• Budget Start: 1991-09-09
• Budget End: 1992-08-31
• Support Year: 3
• Fiscal Year: 1991

Institution

• Name: Marquette University
• Type: Schools of Arts and Sciences
• DUNS #: 046929621
• City: Milwaukee
• State: WI
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 53201

Publications

McPherson, D R; Buchanan, J T; Kasicki, S (1994) Effects of strychnine on fictive swimming in the lamprey: evidence for glycinergic inhibition, discrepancies with model predictions, and novel modulatory rhythms. J Comp Physiol A 175:311-21

McPherson, D R; Kemnitz, C P (1994) Modulation of lamprey fictive swimming and motoneuron physiology by dopamine, and its immunocytochemical localization in the spinal cord. Neurosci Lett 166:23-6

McClellan, A D; McPherson, D; O'Donovan, M J (1994) Combined retrograde labeling and calcium imaging in spinal cord and brainstem neurons of the lamprey. Brain Res 663:61-8

Buchanan, J T (1993) Electrophysiological properties of identified classes of lamprey spinal neurons. J Neurophysiol 70:2313-25

Buchanan, J T (1992) Neural network simulations of coupled locomotor oscillators in the lamprey spinal cord. Biol Cybern 66:367-74

Meer, D P; Buchanan, J T (1992) Apamin reduces the late afterhyperpolarization of lamprey spinal neurons, with little effect on fictive swimming. Neurosci Lett 143:1-4