An oscillatory neuronal circuit generating a locomotory rhythm.
- 1 October 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 73 (10) , 3734-3738
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.73.10.3734
Abstract
A quartet of interconnected interneurons whose periodic activity appears to generate the traveling body wave of the swimming leech has been identified on each side of segmental ganglia of the ventral nerve cord of Hirudo medicinalis. Theoretical analysis and electronic analog models of the identified intra- and interganglionic synaptic connections of the segmentally iterated interneurons showed that they form an oscillatory network with cycle period and intra-and intersegmental phase relations appropriate for the swimming movement.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Simulation of rhythmic nervous activitiesBiological Cybernetics, 1968
- LOGICAL NETWORK FOR CONTROLLING LIMB MOVEMENTS IN URODELA1965