Intrinsic properties and reflex compensation in reinnervated triceps surae muscles of the cat: Effect of movement history

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1547-1555

  Huyghues Despointes, Clotilde M J I ^a   Cope, Timothy C ^a   Nichols, T Richard ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; FORCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTORY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CATS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0141788610     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00719.2002     Document Type: Article

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