Phasic and tonic stretch reflexes in muscles with few muscle spindles: Human jaw-opener muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-308

  Ostry, David J ^a   Gribble, Paul L ^a   Levin, Mindy F ^b   Feldman, Anatol G ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

EMG; Human; Jaw movement; Muscle spindle; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAW MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MASSETER MUSCLE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAW; MASSETER MUSCLE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0030982507     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005757     Document Type: Article

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