The effect of spinal cord transection on
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Dr. R. F. Mayer; R. E. Burke; J. Toop; Dr. B. Walmsley; Dr. J. A. Hodgson
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Article
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1984
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We studied the properties of whole medial gastrocnemius (MG) and soleus muscles, and of 74 individual MG motor units in three cats with long-term complete low thoracic spinal transection (TS). All animals remained paraplegic and there was considerable atrophy of MG and soleus muscles. Motor units in