Short-term plasticity of spinal reflex excitability induced by rhythmic arm movement

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2000-2005

  Javan, Bahar ^a   Zehr, E Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CYCLING; ERGOMETER; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL REFLEX; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADULT; ARM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 42249094586     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01315.2007     Document Type: Article

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