Long-loop reflex from arm afferents to remote muscles in normal man

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-144

  Kagamihara, Yasuhiro ^a   Hayashi, Akito ^b   Masakado, Yoshihisa ^c   Kouno, Yutaka ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interlimb reflex; Long loop reflex; Masseter inhibitory reflex; Presynaptic inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FACILITATION; HISTOGRAM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0038008737     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1436-2     Document Type: Article

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