Heterogenic feedback between hindlimb extensors in the spontaneously locomoting premammillary cat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 184-197

  Ross, Kyla T ^a,b   Nichols, T Richard ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECEREBRATE STATE; FEEDBACK; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX;

EID: 58849110766     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90338.2008     Document Type: Article

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