Mutual Re‐excitation with Post‐Inhibitory Rebound: A Simulation Study on the Mechanisms for Locomotor Rhythm Generation in the Spinal Cord of Xenopus Embryos

We have used computer simulations as one way to test the hypothesis that locomotor rhythm production for swimming in frog embryo spinal cord depends on rebound from inhibition and is sustained by mutual re‐excitation among spinal excitatory interneurons. All simulations were based on physiological and anatomical data on the neurons and circuitry of Xenopus embryo spinal cord.

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