Modularity of Motor Output Evoked by Intraspinal Microstimulation in Cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 502-514

  Lemay, Michel A ^a,b   Grill, Warren M ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University ^*  (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORALOSE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FORCE; HINDLIMB; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL REFLEX;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATS; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; CHLORALOSE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0347719194     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00235.2003     Document Type: Article

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