PBIO SEMINAR SERIES

To Be (or not to be) a Rhythmogenic Interneuron in the Locomotor Circuitry

Wednesday - November 08, 2006
06-07 Seminar Series

Lea Ziskind-Conhaim
Professor University of Wisconsin
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Host: Albert Berger

The spinal cord serves as a relay center that integrates and actively modulates inputs from supraspinal centers and muscles. The autonomous spinal circuitry consists of rhythm-generating and rhythm-coordinating networks that provide the phasic excitation of motoneurons during rhythmic movements. My talk will focus on the properties of GFP-expressing, locomotor-related excitatory and inhibitory interneurons that are putative components of the networks generating locomotor-like rhythmic motor outputs.