Recurrent inhibition of human firing motoneurons (experimental and modeling study)

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-257

  Piotrkiewicz, Maria ^a   Kudina, Lydia ^b   Mierzejewska, Jolanta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTIMATION; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRACHIAL BICEPS (BB); MOTONEURONS (MN); RECURRENT INHIBITION (RI); RENSHAW CELLS (RC);

NEUROLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 10044280727     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-004-0507-1     Document Type: Article

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