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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2023

Short-latency stretch reflexes depend on the balance of activity in agonist and antagonist muscles during ballistic elbow movements.

Zoe Villamar, Daniel Ludvig, Eric J Perreault

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zoe VillamarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.ORCID 0000-0003-1308-4840
Daniel LudvigDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.ORCID 0000-0003-0268-6686
Eric J PerreaultDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.ORCID 0000-0002-9860-6427
Northwestern University · US

Funding

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND REHABILITATION OF NEURAL DYSFUNCTIONT32HD007418 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Levi John Hargrove · 1992 to 2026
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NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spinal stretch reflex is a fundamental building block of motor function, with a sensitivity that varies continuously during movement and when changing between movement and posture. Many have investigated task-dependent reflex sensitivity, but few have provided simple, quantitative analyses of the relationship between the volitional control and stretch reflex sensitivity throughout tasks that require coordinated activity of several muscles. Here, we develop such an analysis and use it to test the hypothesis that modulation of reflex sensitivity during movement can be explained by the balance of activity within agonist and antagonist muscles better than by activity only in the muscle homonymous with the reflex. Subjects completed hundreds of flexion and extension movements as small, pseudorandom perturbations of elbow angle were applied to obtain estimates of stretch reflex amplitude throughout the movement. A subset of subjects performed a postural control task with muscle activities matched to those during movement. We found that reflex modulation during movement can be described by background activity in antagonist muscles about the elbow much better than by activity only in the muscle homonymous to the reflex (

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Elbow JointReflex, StretchElbowElectromyographyHumansMuscle, Skeletalmovementmusclereflexstretch reflex

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PMID36475940
PMCPMC9799151
OpenAlexW4310955215

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