Reflex pathways from large muscle spindle afferents and recurrent axon collaterals to motoneurones of wrist and digit muscles: A comparison in cats, monkeys and humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 13-19

  Illert, M ^a   Kummel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forelimb; Ia afferents; Intracellular recording; Phylogenetic adaptation

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; BRAIN; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELBOW; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MONKEY; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INHIBITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINE; WRIST;

EID: 0344131970     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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