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Recurrent interactions between individual motoneurones and dorsal root fibres in the frog

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Direct intracellular stimulation of amphibian motoneurones can elicit unitary recurrent responses in some individual primary afferent fibres. These effects are probably mediated through GABA-ergic terminals of spinal interneurones.

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  1. Laboratory of Physiology of the Nerve Cell, Sechenov Institute, Acad. Sci. of USSR, 194223, Leningrad, USSR

    A. I. Shapovalov & B. I. Shiriaev

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Shapovalov, A.I., Shiriaev, B.I. Recurrent interactions between individual motoneurones and dorsal root fibres in the frog. Exp Brain Res 38, 115–116 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00237938

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