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The command neuron concept

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It is suggested that a command neuron be defined as a neuron that is both necessary and sufficient for the initiation of a given behavior, even though individual neurons of the group fail to meet the criteria.
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Neural Mechanisms of Motor Program Switching inAplysia

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Fast conventional and slow peptidergic transmissions originating from the same interneuron act in concert to meet specific temporal requirements in pattern switching.
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Dopaminergic neuron B20 generates rhythmic neuronal activity in the feeding motor circuitry ofAplysia

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The Construction of Movement with Behavior-Specific and Behavior-Independent Modules

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These findings support the existence of behavior-specific modules and suggest that neuron B51 was found to mediate a phase that can be flexibly added on to both ingestion and egestive-rejection programs, suggesting that B51 may be a behavior-independent module.
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Giant protein kinases: domain interactions and structural basis of autoregulation.

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Together, the structures reveal the cooperative interactions between the autoregulatory region and the residues from the catalytic domain involved in protein substrate binding, ATP binding, catalysis and the activation loop, and explain the differences between the observed autoinhibitory mechanism and the one found in the structure of calmodulin‐dependent kinase I.
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Activity of an identified serotonergic neuron in free moving Aplysia correlates with behavioral arousal

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Interneuronal Basis of the Generation of Related but Distinct Motor Programs in Aplysia: Implications for Current Neuronal Models of Vertebrate Intralimb Coordination

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The model supports the existence of separate controllers for different movements as in the Grillner (1981, 1985) model and is similar to the Berkowitz and Stein (1994) model because the closure movement is mediated by separate controllers in different programs, and thus both models can be classified as recruitment models.
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Differential firing patterns of the peptide-containing cholinergic motor neurons B15 and B16 during feeding behavior inAplysia

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Concerted GABAergic Actions of Aplysia Feeding Interneurons in Motor Program Specification

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It is found that blockade of GABAergic inhibition by picrotoxin increases B8 activity during protraction and shortens protraction, without disrupting the integrity of motor programs.
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Motor program selection in simple model systems

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