Shaping appropriate locomotive motor output through interlimb neural pathway within spinal cord in humans

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2946-2955

  Kawashima, Noritaka ^a,b   Nozaki, Daichi ^a,c   Abe, Masaki O ^a,d   Nakazawa, Kimitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 57049175133     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00020.2008     Document Type: Article

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