Organization of recurrent inhibition and facilitation in motoneuron pools innervating dorsiflexors of the cat hindlimb

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 344-352

  Trank, Tamara V ^a   Turkin, Vladimir V ^a   Hamm, Thomas M ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digit function; Locomotion; Recurrent collaterals; Recurrent inhibition; Renshaw cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FACILITATION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INNERVATION; LATENT PERIOD; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INHIBITION; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; STEREOTYPY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0033049173     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050690     Document Type: Article

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