Neuronal pathways from low-threshold hindlimb cutaneous afferents to motoneurons innervating trunk muscles in low-spinal cats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 543-549

  Wada, N ^a   Shikaki, N ^a   Tokuriki, M ^a   Kanda, K ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Back muscles; Cat; Cutaneous afferent; Motoneurons; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CAT; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032872221     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050879     Document Type: Article

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