Electromyographic Responses From the Hindlimb Muscles of the Decerebrate Cat to Horizontal Support Surface Perturbations

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University; 2 School of Applied Physiology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and 3 Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania Submitted 17 September 2008; ac...

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Animals
Cats
Decerebrate State - pathology
Decerebrate State - physiopathology
Electromyography - methods
Hindlimb
Models, Biological
Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology
Postural Balance - physiology
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Time Factors
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