Effects of ankle and hip muscle afferent inputs on rhythm generation during fictive locomotion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1591-1605

  Frigon, Alain ^a   Sirois, Jennifer ^a   Gossard, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HIP; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RHYTHM; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; CATS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; HIP; INSTINCT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 77949684391     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01028.2009     Document Type: Article

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