Motor cortical HCN channels: a contributor to coordinated forelimb movements in rodents?

Affiliations

¹ The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
² Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.

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Rune Rasmussen et al. J Physiol. 2017.

. 2017 Feb 1;595(3):633-634.

doi: 10.1113/JP273527.

¹ The Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience - DANDRITE, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
² Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark.

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HCN channels segregate stimulation-evoked movement responses in neocortex and allow for coordinated forelimb movements in rodents.
Boychuk JA, Farrell JS, Palmer LA, Singleton AC, Pittman QJ, Teskey GC. Boychuk JA, et al. J Physiol. 2017 Jan 1;595(1):247-263. doi: 10.1113/JP273068. Epub 2016 Sep 27. J Physiol. 2017. PMID: 27568501 Free PMC article.

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