L Jami - Physiological reviews, 1992 - journals.physiology.org
Golgi tendon organs are contraction-sensitive mechanoreceptors of mammalian skeletal muscles innervated by fast-conducting Ib afferent fibers. With this clear-cut definition, tendon …
BA Conway, H Hultborn, O Kiehn - Experimental brain research, 1987 - Springer
The reflex regulation of stepping is an important factor in adapting the step cycle to changes in the environment. The present experiments have examined the influence of muscle …
PJ Whelan - Progress in neurobiology, 1996 - Elsevier
Many of the general concepts regarding the control of walking were described years ago by: Sherrington (1906) Integrative Actions of the Nervous System. Yale University Press: New …
MP Côté, LM Murray, M Knikou - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Systematic research on the physiological and anatomical characteristics of spinal cord interneurons along with their functional output has evolved for more than one century …
A computational model of the mammalian spinal cord circuitry incorporating a two‐level central pattern generator (CPG) with separate half‐centre rhythm generator (RG) and pattern …
GE Loeb, IE Brown, EJ Cheng - Experimental brain research, 1999 - Springer
Successful performance of a sensorimotor task arises from the interaction of descending commands from the brain with the intrinsic properties of the lower levels of the sensorimotor …
ED Schomburg - Neuroscience research, 1990 - Elsevier
Spinal motor systems receive a convergent input from descending tracts and peripheral afferents. As a rule, there is multiform descending convergence from different supraspinal …
G Holstege - Progress in brain research, 1991 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview of the caudal structures in brainstem and spinal cord as far as they concern the motor system. It discusses a concept that …