Motor Control: Illuminating an Enigmatic Midbrain Locomotor Center

Maria S Esposito; Silvia Arber

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.043

Motor Control: Illuminating an Enigmatic Midbrain Locomotor Center

Curr Biol. 2016 Apr 4;26(7):R291-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.043.

Authors

Maria S Esposito¹, Silvia Arber²

Affiliations

¹ Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel and Friedrich Miescher Institute, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
² Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel and Friedrich Miescher Institute, 4058 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: silvia.arber@unibas.ch.

PMID: 27046818
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.043

Abstract

A recent study has functionally disentangled the hitherto enigmatic mesencephalic locomotor region of the brain on the basis of cell type diversity and identified differential upstream regulatory pathways.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Basal Ganglia / physiology*
Brain Mapping*
Mesencephalon / cytology*
Motor Activity*
Neural Pathways*