Interaction of the movement-dependent, extrafusal and fusimotor after-effects in the firing of the primary spindle endings

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1257-1266

  Kostyukov, A I ^a   Cherkassky, V L ^a,b  

^a BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

after effects; hysteresis; motor control; muscle; muscle spindles; primary afferents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS, GAMMA; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NERVE ENDINGS;

EID: 0031012378     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00431-9     Document Type: Article

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