Researcher interests: Spinal cord physiology. Organization of spinal neuronal networks and their electrophysiological characterization. Central synaptic transmission. Neurogenesis of the locomotor rhythm in the spinal cord.
FACULTY / SCHOOL: School of Medicine - IMRIC
DEPARTMENT: Medical Neurobiology
Selected Publications
ascending pathways that mediate cholinergic modulation of lumbar motor activity (2017)|
Journal of Neurochemistry|
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shaping the output of lumbar flexor motoneurons by sacral neuronal networks (2017)|
The Journal of Neuroscience|
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bursting in isolated spinal cords of neonatal rats sacrocaudal afferents induce rhythmic efferent (2015)|
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the sacral networks and neural pathways used to elicit lumbar motor rhythm in the rodent spinal cord (2014)|
Frontiers in Neural Circuits|
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a tool box for deciphering neuronal circuits in the developing chick spinal cord (2014)|
Nucleic Acids Research|
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neuroanatomical basis for cholinergic modulation of locomotor networks by sacral relay neurons with ascending lumbar projections (2014)|
The Journal of Comparative Neurology|
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the motor output of hindlimb innervating segments of the spinal cord is modulated by cholinergic activation of rostrally projecting sacral relay neurons (2014)|
Journal of Molecular Neuroscience|
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characterization of sacral interneurons that mediate activation of locomotor pattern generators by sacrocaudal afferent input (2013)|
The Journal of Neuroscience|
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long and short multifunicular projections of sacral neurons are activated by sensory input to produce locomotor activity in the absence of supraspinal control (2010)|
The Journal of Neuroscience|
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