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The organization of the motor apparatus into anatomically and functionally defined pools of regularly recruited motor units derives from some of the earliest and most enduring observations of neurophysiology. In recent years, there has been much productive research concentrated on discovering the anatomical bases of this organization in the spinal cord circuitry and the properties of the final common pathway, the alpha motoneurons themselves (for review, see Burke, 1981a). However, almost all of the direct evidence for the function of this system has been derived from experiments on reduced or anesthetized animals and on human subjects performing highly constrained and artificial motor tasks.
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Loeb, G.E., Hoffer, J.A., Sugano, N., Marks, W.B., O’Donovan, M.J., Pratt, C.A. (1987). Activity Patterns of Identified Alpha Motoneurons to Cat Anterior Thigh Muscles during Normal Walking and Flexor Reflexes. In: Gantchev, G.N., Dimitrov, B., Gatev, P. (eds) Motor Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7508-5_28
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