Motor control: Snake neurons speed up

Saul Bello-Rojas; Martha W Bagnall

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.060

Motor control: Snake neurons speed up

Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):R98-R99. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.060.

Authors

Saul Bello-Rojas¹, Martha W Bagnall²

Affiliations

¹ Neuroscience Graduate Program, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
² Department of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 38320482
PMCID: PMC11707829 (available on 2025-02-05)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.060

Abstract

How are motor neurons tuned for very different jobs? Classic work has focused on variations in motor neuron size and their premotor networks. New results in rattlesnakes show that shifting a motor neuron's temporal precision can be as simple as changing its potassium channel conductance.

MeSH terms

Animals
Crotalus* / physiology
Motor Neurons* / physiology

Grants and funding

R01 NS130483/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States