Developmental adaptation of withdrawal reflexes to early alteration of peripheral innervation in the rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 495, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 399-409

  Holmberg, Hans ^a   Schouenborg, Jens ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0029777339     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021602     Document Type: Article

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