Pacemaker activity in a sensory ending with multiple encoding sites: The cat muscle spindle primary ending

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 498, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 177-199

  Banks, R W ^a   Hulliger, M ^b   Scheepstra, K A ^b,c   Otten, E ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; SENSORY NERVE; TENUISSIMUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0031037013     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021850     Document Type: Article

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