Ensemble firing of muscle afferents recorded during normal locomotion in cats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 507, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 293-304

  Prochazka, Arthur ^a   Gorassini, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HAMSTRING; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON RECEPTOR; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; ANIMAL CELL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FIRING RATE; HINDLIMB; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; TENDON; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HINDLIMB; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032519853     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.293bu.x     Document Type: Article

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