Patterns of fusimotor activity during locomotion in the decerebrate cat deduced from recordings from hindlimb muscle spindles

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 522, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 515-532

  Taylor, A ^a   Durbaba, R ^a   Ellaway, P H ^a   Rawlinson, S ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOVEMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRING RATE; FUSIMOTOR ACTIVITY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL; VELOCITY; WALKING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HINDLIMB; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; ROTATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS, GAMMA; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIODICITY;

EID: 0034141797     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2000.t01-3-00515.x     Document Type: Article

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