Static fusimotor action during locomotion in the decerebrated cat revealed by cross-correlation of spindle afferent activity

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 285-296

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAMMA MOTONEURON; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; REST; REVIEW; TREADMILL;

EID: 0037341965     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/eph8802481     Document Type: Review

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