Spinal Interneurons With Dual Axon Projections to Knee-Extensor and Hip-Extensor Motor Pools

The central nervous system (CNS) may simplify control of limb movements by activating certain combinations of muscles together, i.e., muscle synergies. Little is known, however, about the spinal cord interneurons that activate muscle synergies by exciting sets of motoneurons for different muscles. T...

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Main Authors: Khuong H. Nguyen, Thomas E. Scheurich, Tingting Gu, Ari Berkowitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncir.2020.00007/full