Contribution of muscle afferents to prolonged flexion withdrawal reflexes in human spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3375-3384

  Hornby, T G ^a,b,c   Tysseling Mattiace, V M ^c   Benz, E N ^c   Schmit, B D ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; FORCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HIP; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LATENT PERIOD; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED FLEXION WITHDRAWAL REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TORQUE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REFLEX; SKIN; SPASM; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TORQUE;

EID: 8644274640     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00152.2004     Document Type: Article

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