Resting discharge of human muscle spindles is not modulated by increases in sympathetic drive

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 551, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1005-1011

  Macefield, Vaughan G ^a   Sverrisdottir, Yrsa B ^a   Wallin, B Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE ENDING; NORMAL HUMAN; PEAK INSPIRATORY FLOW; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANKLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY POSITION; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CHEMORECEPTOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROMODULATION; PULSE PRESSURE; RECORDING; SEAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TENDON; TOE; VIBRATION; WAKEFULNESS;

TUNGSTEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APNEA; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0141535310     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.040196     Document Type: Article

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