NATURE OF PARESIS FOLLOWING LATERAL CORTICO-SPINAL SECTION IN MONKEYS
- 1 September 1943
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Neurophysiology
- Vol. 6 (5) , 425-429
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.1943.6.5.425
Abstract
Interruption of the lateral cortico-spinal tract in the spinal cord of the monkey results in a paresis that is more prominent in the lower than in the upper extremity, and more pronounced in the distal than in the proximal muscle groups. This paresis is characterized by hypotonicity, hypoactive reflexes, and absence of clonus, indicating that no descending inhibitory pathway whose interruption results in spasticity is present in the lateral cortico-spinal tract of the monkey.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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