The responses of muscle spindles to small, slow movements in passive muscle and during fusimotor activity

Brain Research

Volumn 821, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-94

  Wise, A K ^a   Gregory, J E ^a   Proske, U ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contraction; Fusimotor; Kinaesthesia; Muscle spindle; Sensation; Stretch

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; GAMMA MOTONEURON; KINESTHESIA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0033528451     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01071-9     Document Type: Article

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