Electrical stimulation over muscle tendons in humans. Evidence favouring presynaptic inhibition of Ia fibres due to the activation of group III tendon afferents

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 373-380

  Priori, Alberto ^a,b   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,c,d   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^a   Pedace, Francesca ^a   Giovannelli, Morena ^a   Manfredi, Mario ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Division of Neurology   (Italy)

^c Mediterranean Inst Neurosci N   (Italy)

^d Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Group III afferents; Ia afferents; Muscle tendon; Presynaptic inhibition; Silent period

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNERVATION; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SKIN; TENDONS;

EID: 0031882884     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.2.373     Document Type: Article

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