Bilateral spike-triggered average effects in arm and shoulder muscles from the monkey pontomedullary reticular formation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 8053-8058

  Davidson, Adam G ^a,b,c   Schieber, Marc H ^b   Buford, John A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; EMG; Motor control; Primate; Reticular; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PONS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SHOULDER;

EID: 34547419507     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0040-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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