Extraocular motor unit and whole-muscle contractile properties in the squirrel monkey: Summation of forces and fiber morphology

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 338-345

  Shall, Mary S ^a   Dimitrova, Diana M ^a   Goldberg, Stephen J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abducens; Eye movements; Motoneuron; Oculomotor system; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPIKE; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; SAIMIRI;

EID: 0041665225     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1506-5     Document Type: Article

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