Movement Reduces the Dynamic Response of Muscle Spindle Afferents and Motoneuron Synaptic Potentials in Rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2164-2171

  Haftel, Valerie K ^a,c   Bichler, Edyta K ^a,b   Nichols, T Richard ^a   Pinter, Martin J ^a   Cope, Timothy C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

^c MOREHOUSE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX, STRETCH; SYNAPSES;

EID: 11244309169     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01147.2003     Document Type: Article

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