Heteronymous reflex connections in human upper limb muscles in response to stretch of forearm muscles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1489-1499

  Manning, Curtis D ^a   Bawa, Parveen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antagonist; Spinal reflex; Stretch reflex; Transcortical reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGER LATENCY REFLEX; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT LATENCY REFLEX; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WRIST;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052571572     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00084.2011     Document Type: Article

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