Activity of spinal interneurons and their effects on forearm muscles during voluntary wrist movements in the monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2475-2494

  Perlmutter, Steve I ^a   Maier, Marc A ^a,b   Fetz, Eberhard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FACILITATION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TORQUE; WRIST;

EID: 0031730291     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2475     Document Type: Article

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