Stretch reflex instability compared in three different human muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-305

  Durbaba, R ^a   Taylor, A ^a   Manu, C A ^a   Buonajuti, M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human; Motor physiology; Muscles; Somato sensory physiology; Stretch reflex instability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; DIGASTRIC MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; TREMOR;

EID: 23844455612     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2165-x     Document Type: Article

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