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J F Iles1, S Nicolopoulos-Stournaras
1Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK.
Experimental Brain Research
|June 1, 1996
Abstract:
In adult immobilised, decerebrate rats, administration of L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor centre, or a combination of the two elicited fictive locomotor patterns in hindlimb muscle nerves. The patterns correspond closely to those observed in decerebrate animals that were free to move.
