Parallel reflex pathways from flexor muscle afferents evoking resetting and flexion enhancement during fictive locomotion and scratch in the cat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 569, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 275-290

  Stecina, Katinka ^a   Quevedo, Jorge ^b   McCrea, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SCRATCHING; SPINAL REFLEX; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FLEXION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 28244468604     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.095505     Document Type: Article

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