Medium-latency response to muscle stretch in human lower limb: Estimation of conduction velocity of group II fibres and central delay

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-32

  Nardone, Antonio ^a   Schieppati, Marco ^b  

^a Scientific Institute of Veruno   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human; Posture; Spinal circuits; Spindle secondary afferents; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINDLE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANKLE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPINAL CORD; TOES;

EID: 0032511070     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00383-8     Document Type: Article

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