Response patterns and force relations of monkey spinal interneurons during active wrist movement

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2495-2513

  Maier, Marc A ^a,b   Perlmutter, Steve I ^a   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; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HAND MOVEMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0031730294     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2495     Document Type: Article

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