The monosynaptic Ia afferent pathway can largely explain the stretch duration effect of the long latency M2 response

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 491-500

  Schuurmans, Jasper ^a   De Vlugt, Erwin ^a   Schouten, Alfred C ^a   Meskers, Carel G M ^b   De Groot, Jurriaan H ^b   Van Der Helm, Frans C T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ia afferent; M2 response; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REFLEX, STRETCH; SYNAPSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449118688     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1647-7     Document Type: Article

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