Recent articles

Stephenson-Jones M, Flores O, Robertson B, Grillner S. (2012) Evolutionary conservation of the habenular nuclei and their circuitry controlling the dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HT) systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA109:E164-73.

Grillner S (2011) Human locomotor circuits conform. Science 334:912-913.

Stephenson-Jones M, Samuelsson E, Ericsson J, Robertson B, Grillner S. (2011) Evolutionary Conservation of the Basal Ganglia as a Common Vertebrate Mechanism for Action Selection. Curr Biol, 21:1081-1091.

Ericsson J, Silberberg G, Robertson B, Wikström MA, Grillner S. (2011) Striatal cellular properties conserved from lampreys to mammals. J Physiol. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2011.209643.

Kozlov A, Huss M, Lansner A, Kotaleski JH, Grillner S. (2009) Simple cellular and network control principles governs complex patterns of motor behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106:20027-32.

Jones MR, Grillner S, Robertson B. (2009) Selective projection patterns from subtypes of retinal ganglion cells to tectum and pretectum: distribution and relation to behavior. J Comp Neurol. 517:257-75.

Thompson RH, Ménard A, Pombal M, Grillner S. (2008) Forebrain dopamine depletion impairs motor behavior in lamprey. Eur J Neurosci. 27:1452-60.

Saitoh K, Ménard A, Grillner S. (2007) Tectal control of locomotion, steering, and eye movements in lamprey. J Neurophysiol. 97:3093-108.

Grillner, S. (2006) Biological Pattern Generation: The Cellu.lar and Computational Logic of Networks in Motion. Neuron 52:751-766.

Grillner, S., J. Hellgren. A. Ménard, K. Saitoh, M. Wikström (2005) Mechanisms for selection of basic motor programs – roles for the striatum and pallidum. TINS 28:364-370.

Grillner, S., H. Markram, E. De Schutter, G. Silberberg, F.E.N. LeBeau (2005) Microcircuits in action - from CPGs to neocortex. TINS vol 28, no 10:525-533. Cangiano L and Grillner S (2005) Mechanisms of Rhythm Generation in a Spinal Locomotor Network Deprived of crossed connections: The lamprey hemicord. J. Neurosci. 26: 923-935

Grillner, S. and P. Wallén (2004) Innate versus learned movements – a false dichotomy? Progress in Brain Research, 143: 3-12.

Cangiano, L. and Grillner S. (2005) Mechanisms of rhythm generation in a spinal locomotor network deprived of crossed connections: The lamprey hemicord. J Neuroscience 25, Jan 26.

Schmitt, D., R. Hill, and S. Grillner (2004) The spinal GABAergic system is a strong modulator of burst frequency in the lamprey locomotor network. J Neurophysiol 92:2357-2367.

Bem, T., J-M Cabelguen, Ö. Ekeberg, and S. Grillner (2003) From swimming to walking: a single basic network for two different behaviors. Biol. Cybern. 88:79-90.

Beloozerova, I.N., P.V. Zelenin, L.B- Popova, G.N. Orlovsky, S. Grillner, and T. Deliagina (2003) Postural control in the rabbit maintaining balance on the tilting platform. J Neurophysiol 90:3783-3793.

Zelenin, P.V, E.L. Pavlova, S. Grillner, G.N. Orlovsky, and T.G. Deliagina (2003) Comparison of the motor effects of individual vestibulo- and reticulospinal neurons on dorsal and ventral myotomes in lamprey. J. Neurophysiol. 90:3161-3167.

Hill, R.H., E. Svensson, Y. Dewael, S. Grillner (2003) 5-HT inhibits N-type but not L-type Ca2+ channels via 5-HT1A receptors in lamprey spinal neurons. Eur. J. Neurosci. 18: 2919-2924.

Grillner, S. (2003) The motor infrastructure: From ion channels to neuronal networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4: 573-586.

Cangiano, L. and S. Grillner (2003) Fast and slow locomotor burst generation in the hemispinal cord of the lamprey. J. Neurophysiol. 89:2931-2942.

Svensson, E., M.A Wikström, R.H. Hill, and S. Grillner (2003) Endogenous and exogenous dopamine presynaptically inhibits glutamatergic reticulospinal transmission via an action of D2-receptors on N-type Ca2+ channels. Europ. J. Neuroscience 17: 447-454.

Grillner, S. and P. Wallén (2002) Cellular bases of a vertebrate locomotor system –steering, intersegmental and segmental co-ordination and sensory control. Brain Research Reviews 40: 92-106.

Svensson, E, Grillner S., and Parker D. (2002) Synaptically evoked membrane potential oscillations induced by substance P in lamprey motor neurons. J Neurophysiol. Jan;87(1):113-21.

Grillner, S. (2002) Fundamentals of motor systems. In L.R. Squire, F.E. Bloom, S.K. Mc Connell, J.L. Roberts, N.C. Spitzer, M.J. Zigmond (Eds.) Fundamental Neuroscience, 2nd edition, Academic Press: 753-766.

Cangiano, L., P. Wallén and S. Grillner (2002) Role of apamin-sensitive KCa channels for reticulospinal synaptic transmission to motoneuron and for the afterhyperpolarization. J. Neurophysiology 88: 289-299.

Grillner, S. (2002) The spinal locomotor CPG: a target after spinal cord injury. In: L. McKerracher, G. Douchet and S. Rossignol (Eds) Progress in Brain Research 137:97-108.

Kozlov, A., J. Hellgren Kotaleski, E. Aurell, S. Grillner and A. Lansner (2001) Modeling of substance P and 5-HT induced synaptic plasticity in the lamprey spinal CPG: Consequences for network pattern generation. J. Comput. Neurosci. 11:183-200.

Hu, GY., Z. Biro, R. Hill and S. Grillner (2002) Intracellular QX-314 causes depression of membrane potential oscillations in lamprey spinal neurons during fictive locomotion. J. Neurophysiol. 87:2676-2683.

Selected articles

Cangiano L and Grillner S (2005) Mechanisms of Rhythm Generation in a Spinal Locomotor Network Deprived of crossed connections: The lamprey hemicord. J. Neurosci., 26, 923-935

Grillner, S. (2003) The motor infrastructure: From ion channels to neuronal networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4: 573-586.

Parker, D., W. Zhang & S. Grillner (1998) Substance P modulates NMDA responses and causes long-term protein synthesis-dependent modulation of the lamprey locomotor network. J. Neurosci. 18(12):4800-4813.

Grillner, S. (1996) Neural networks for vertebrate locomotion. Scientific American. January. 64-69.

Bacskai, B.J., P. Wallén, V. Lev-Ram, S. Grillner & R.Y. Tsien (1995) Activity-related calcium dynamics in lamprey motoneurons as revealed by video-rate confocal microscopy. Neuron 14. 19-28.

Schotland, J., O. Shupliakov, M. Wikström, L. Brodin, M. Srinivasan, Z. You, M. Herrera-Marschitz, W. Zhang, T. Hökfelt & S. Grillner. (1995) Control of lamprey locomotor neurons by colocalized monoamine transmitters. Nature. 374. 266-268.

Ekeberg, Ö., A. Lansner & S. Grillner (1995) The neural control of fish swimming studied through numerical simulations. Adaptive Behavior 3. 363-384 (MIT Press).

Grillner, S. & T. Matsushima (1991) The neural network underlying locomotion in lamprey-synaptic and cellular mechanisms. Neuron 7. 1-15.

Alford, S. & S. Grillner (1991) The involvment of GABAB receptors and coupled G-proteins in spinal GABAergic presynaptic inhition. J. Neurosci. 11. 3718-3726.

A.P. Georgopoulos & Grillner, S (1989) Visuomotor coordination in reaching and locomotion. Science 245. 1209-1210.

Wallén, P. & S. Grillner (1987) N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor-induced, inherent oscillatory activity in neurons active during locomotion in the lamprey. J. Neurosci. 7. 2745-2755.

Buchanan, J.T. & S. Grillner (1987) Newly identified 'glutamate interneurons' and their role in locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord. Science 236. 312-314.

Grillner, S. (1985) Neurobiological bases of rhythmic motor acts in vertebrates. Science 228.143-149.

Grillner, S., T. Williams & P-C Lagerbäck (1984) The edgecell, a possible intraspinal mechanoreceptor. Science 223. 500-503

Grillner, S. (1975) Locomotion in vertebrates - Central mechanisms and reflex interaction. Physiol. Rev. 55. 247-304.

Grillner, S. & T. Hongo (1972) Vestibulospinal effects on motoneurones and interneurones in the lumbosacral cord. In: "Basic aspects of central vestibular mechanisms. Progr. In Brain Res. Vol. 37". l. pp 243-262. Brodal A. and Pompeiano O (Eds.).

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