Inhibition versus facilitation of the reflex responsiveness of identified wrist extensor motor units by antagonist flexor afferent inputs in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 391-401

  Aimonetti, Jean Marc ^a   Vedel, Jean Pierre ^a   Schmied, Annie ^a   Pagni, Simone ^a  

^a UPR Développement et Pathologie du Mouvement du CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Flexor group I afferents; Humans; Motor units; Reciprocal inhibition; Wrist extensor muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FACILITATION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; RADIAL NERVE; REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WRIST;

EID: 0033940986     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000423     Document Type: Article

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