Experimental changes to limb muscles elicit contralateral reactions: The problem of controls

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1691-1700

  Lu, Da Xing ^a   Käser, Lorenzo ^a   Müntener, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contralaterality; Controls; Extensor digitorum longus; Muscle; Rat; Soleus; Surgical overloading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344171884     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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