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Spinal cord maturation and locomotion in mice with an isolated cortex.
Neuroscience - 3 Dec 2013
Han Q, Feng J, Qu Y, Ding Y, Wang M, So K-F, Wu W, Zhou L
Abstract excerpt
The spinal cord plays a key role in motor behavior. It relays major sensory information, receives afferents from supraspinal centers and integrates movement in the central pattern generators. Spinal motor output is controlled via corticofugal pathways including corticospinal and cortico-subcortical projections. Spinal cord injury damages descending supraspinal as well as ascending sensory pathways. In adult...
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