Flexor reflex afferents reset the step cycle during fictive locomotion in the cat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-350

  Schomburg, E D ^a,b   Petersen, N ^a   Barajon, I ^a   Hultborn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cat; Fictive locomotion; Flexor reflex; Proprioception; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA; NIALAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLEXOR REFLEX; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; CATS; INTERNEURONS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0031665849     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050522     Document Type: Article

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