Proprioceptive control of extensor activity during fictive scratching and weight support compared to fictive locomotion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 10966-10976

  Perreault, Marie Claude ^a,b   Enriquez Denton, Manuel ^a,c   Hultborn, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Golgi tendon organs; Motoneuron; Motor control; Primary muscle spindles; Rhythm generating networks; Sensory feedback; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SCRATCHING; TENDON RECEPTOR;

EID: 0033573540     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-10966.1999     Document Type: Article

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