Daily durations of spontaneous activity in cat's ankle muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-332

  Hensbergen, E ^a,b   Kernell, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cat; Daily activity; EMG; Hindlimb muscles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0030988362     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005701     Document Type: Article

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