On the mechanism of the post-activation depression of the H-reflex in human subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 450-462

  Hultborn, H ^a   Illert, M ^b   Nielsen, J ^a   Paul, A ^b   Ballegaard, M ^a   Wiese, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cat; H reflexes; Homosynaptic depression; Human; Ia afferents; Reflex pathways; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; DECEREBRATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMORAL NERVE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

EID: 0029915807     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00227268     Document Type: Article

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