Motor unit recruitment patterns during reflex compensation of muscle yield investigated by computer simulations

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 211-217

  Boskov, Djordje ^a,b   Heckman, C J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTONEURON; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0030238429     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220050288     Document Type: Article

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