Ankle clonus and its relationship with the medium-latency reflex response of the soleus by peroneal nerve stimulation

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2011-06-01

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UYSAL, HİLMİ
BOYRAZ, Ismail
Yagcioglu, Suha
OKTAY, Fugen
KAFALI, Pinar
Tönük, Ergin

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Ankle clonus and soleus medium-latency reflex are stretch-induced responses. Clonus is traditionally considered to be the result of oscillation in the group Ia mediated spinal stretch reflex but the soleus medium-latency reflex response originates mainly from the activation of group II afferents.

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Biophysics, Clinical Neurology, Neuroscience (miscellaneous)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40922

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Article