The cat vertebral column: Stance configuration and range of motion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 324-332

  Macpherson, J M ^a   Ye, Y ^b  

^a RS Dow Neurological Sciences Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigravity support; Cat; Scapula; Vertebral column

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CAT; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; SPINE; STANDING; THORACIC SPINE;

NASA DISCIPLINE NEUROSCIENCE; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JOINTS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TORSION;

EID: 0031885419     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050348     Document Type: Article

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