Muscle proprioceptive feedback and spinal networks

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 73, Issue 4-6, 2007, Pages 155-202

  Windhorst, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Golgi tendon organs; Motoneurons; Muscle spindles; Recurrent inhibition; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CELL ACTIVITY; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; DECEREBRATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA MOTONEURON; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNEURON; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RENSHAW CELL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TENDON RECEPTOR; TREMOR;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34249951709     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.03.010     Document Type: Review

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