Roles of muscle activity and load on the relationship between muscle spindle length and whole muscle length in the freely walking cat

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 80, Issue C, 1989, Pages 75-85

  Hoffer, J A ^a   Caputi, A A ^a   Pose, I E ^a   Griffiths, R I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat locomotion; Fusimotor neuron; Muscle fiber; Muscle length; Muscle spindle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0024909113     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)62201-3     Document Type: Article

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