Properties of primary motor cortex output to forelimb muscles in rhesus macaques

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2968-2984

  Park, Michael C ^a   Belhaj Saïf, Abderraouf ^a   Cheney, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORELIMB; JOINT FUNCTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED NUCLEUS; RHESUS MONKEY; ANIMAL; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; MACACA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FORELIMB; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 14844315088     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00649.2003     Document Type: Article

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