Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Decoupling of timescales reveals sparse convergent CPG network in the adult spinal cord

  • Marija Radosevic,
  • Alex Willumsen,
  • Peter C. Petersen,
  • Henrik Lindén,
  • Mikkel Vestergaard,
  • Rune W. Berg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10822-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Spinal CPGs transmit movement commands through rhythmic synaptic drive onto the spinal premotor network. Here, the authors use paired recordings to demonstrate that spinal neurons have decorrelated synaptic activity suggesting a CPG network with sparse convergent connectivity.