A neural infrastructure for rhythmic motor patterns.
It is possible to work out the neural circuity of many invertebrate central pattern generators (CPGs) thereby providing a basis for linking cellular processes to actual behaviors. This review summarizes the infrastructure of the two CPGs in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion in terms of circuitry, ionic conductances and chemical modulation by amines and peptides. Analysis of the circuit using modeling techniques including the use of electronic neurons closes the chapter.
Selverston
Allen I
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Institute for Nonlinear Science-0402, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. aselverston@ucsd.edu
D000818:Animals; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008121:Nephropidae / Q000502:physiology*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D010507:Periodicity