Novel and direct access to the human locomotor spinal circuitry

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3700-3708

  Gerasimenko, Yury ^a,c   Gorodnichev, Ruslan ^b   Machueva, Ekaterina ^b   Pivovarova, Elena ^b   Semyenov, Denis ^b   Savochin, Alexandr ^a   Roy, Roland R ^c   Edgerton, V Reggie ^c,d  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b Velikie Luki State Agricultural Academy   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL ELECTROMAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERTEBRA; VIBRATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949402906     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4751-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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