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In this study we investigated whether the reflex excitatory and inhibitory inputs to motor neuron pools are uniformly or differentially distributed. We found that the distribution of monosynaptic excitatory (H-reflex) and reciprocal inhibitory inputs to different size motor neurons fitted gamma distributions with different skew values. This result can be interpreted as due to a differential distribution of afferent inputs on motor neurons.
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This study was supported by European Research Council (ERC, DEMOVE, No. 267888).
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Yavuz, U.S., Negro, F., Diedrichs, R., Türker, K.S., Farina, D. (2017). Reflex Circuitry Originating from the Muscle Spindles to the Tibialis Anterior Muscle. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_32
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