Key mechanisms for setting the input-output gain across the motoneuron pool

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue , 2004, Pages 75-95

  Hultborn, Hans ^a   Brownstone, Robert B ^b   Toth, Tibor I ^c   Gossard, Jean Pierre ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; RENSHAW CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 0345303944     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(03)43008-2     Document Type: Review

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