Changes in fusimotor activity during repetitive lengthening muscle contractions in decerebrate cats

Neuroscience

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1337-1342

  Ljubisavljevic M ^a   Kalezic I ^a   Radovanovic S ^a   Milanovic S ^a   Blesic S ^a   Anastasijevic R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Fusimotor neurons; Muscle contraction; Muscle stretch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; GAMMA MOTONEURON; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPIKE;

EID: 0032543604     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00122-5     Document Type: Article

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