Hindlimb suspension inhibits air-righting due to altered recruitment of neck and back muscles in rats

Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-242

  Kawano, F ^a,b   Wang, X D ^b   Lan, Y B ^b   Yoneshima, H ^a   Ishihara, A ^c   Igarashi, M ^d   Ohira, Yoshinobu ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air righting; Electromyogram; Hindlimb suspension; Histochemical properties; Neck and back muscles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NECK MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACK; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR;

EID: 9144231539     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.54.229     Document Type: Article

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