Static and dynamic γ-motor output to ankle flexor muscles during locomotion in the decerebrate cat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 571, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 711-723

  Taylor, A ^a   Durbaba, R ^a   Ellaway, P H ^a   Rawlinson, S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; LOCOMOTION; MESENCEPHALON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL; FIRING RATE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANKLE; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURONS, GAMMA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TARSUS, ANIMAL;

EID: 33644676879     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.101634     Document Type: Article

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