Medium-latency stretch reflexes of foot and leg muscles analysed by cooling the lower limb in standing humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 503, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 691-698

  Schieppati, Marco ^b   Nardone, Antonio ^a  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COOLING; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM BREVIS MUSCLE; MEDIUM LATENCY STRETCH REFLEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SHORT LATENCY STRETCH REFLEX; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; COLD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; REFLEX, STRETCH; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030725534     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.691bg.x     Document Type: Article

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