Fusimotor and skeletomotor activities are increased with precision finger movement in man

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 492, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 921-929

  Kakuda, N ^a,b   Vallbo, A B ^a   Wessberg, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE;

EID: 0029946178     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021358     Document Type: Article

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