Responses of medullary reticulospinal neurones to stimulation of cutaneous limb nerves during locomotion in intact cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 153-168

  Drew, Trevor ^a   Cabana, Thérèse ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat; Cutaneous afferents; Gating; Locomotion; Postural control; Reticulospinal neurones

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN NERVE;

EID: 0029760120     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00227294     Document Type: Article

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