Monosynaptic Ia pathways and motor behaviour of the cat distal forelimb

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 423-433

  Illert, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

food taking movement; forelimb motoneurones; forelimb muscles; target reaching movement; treadmill locomotion; x ray cinematography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; CATS; FORELIMB; JOINTS; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029995311     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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