Neuromodulatory inputs maintain expression of a lobster motor pattern-generating network in a modulation-dependent state:

Evidence from long-term decentralization in vitro

By Muriel Thoby-Brisson and John Simmers

The authors suggested that a persistent functional recovery from elimination of some of the central nervous inputs on which network operation normally depends.

Central modulatory inputs exert a long-term influence on the CPG in addition to their short-term permissive action on rethymogenesis.