Tonic central and sensory stimuli facilitate involuntary air-stepping in humans

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2847-2858

  Selionov, V A ^a   Ivanenko, Y P ^b   Solopova, I A ^a   Gurfinkel, V S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIODICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66349095487     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90895.2008     Document Type: Article

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