Adaptive changes of the locomotor pattern and cutaneous reflexes during locomotion studied in the same cats before and after spinalization

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2927-2945

  Frigon, Alain ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINAL REFLEX; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; ADULT; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 45249083906     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.152488     Document Type: Article

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