Spinal reflexes, mechanisms and concepts: From Eccles to Lundberg and beyond

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3-5, 2006, Pages 215-232

  Hultborn, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Intracellular recording; Motor control; Spinal cord; Spinal interneurons; Spinal reflexes; Supraspinal control

Indexed keywords

FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INHIBITION; REFLEX; RENSHAW CELL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL REFLEX; TENDON RECEPTOR; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; CATS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33744942089     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2006.04.001     Document Type: Review

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