Axons are generally considered as reliable transmission cables in which stable propagation
occurs once an action potential is generated. Axon dysfunction occupies a central position in …

Locomotion results from intricate dynamic interactions between a central program and
feedback mechanisms. The central program relies fundamentally on a genetically …

What does the swimming leech have to do with the running human? The ability to move
actively in space is essential to members of the animal kingdom, and the evolution of the …

The concept of nervous inhibition as a physiological phenomenon in its own right--not
merely as a lack of excitation--was central to a number of early theories on the integrative …

How is load sensed by receptors, and how is this sensory information used to guide
locomotion? Many insights in this domain have evolved from comparative studies since it …

Locomotor activity is emphasized in this context because it is a dominant component of all
behaviors, and it is fundamental to behavioral adaptation, eg, procurement of food or …

Most spiking neurons are divided into functional compartments: a dendritic input region, a
soma, a site of action potential initiation, an axon trunk and its collaterals for propagation of …

To assess the significance of GABAA-receptor heterogeneity, which is based on a family of
at least 15 subunits, the cellular localization and subunit composition of GABAA-receptor …

PRESYNAPTIC inhibition reduces chemical synaptic transmission in the central nervous
system between pairs of neurons1–4, but its role (s) in shaping the multisynaptic interactions …

Intra-axonal recordings of stomatogastric nerve axon 1 (SNAX1) indicate that there are
synaptic inputs onto the SNAX1 terminals in the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) of the crab …