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Hemisection of the spinal cord in the adult cat has been used repeatedly as an experimental model to investigate the mechanisms underlying spasticity. In many of these experiments low thoracic spinal cord lesions were performed, which spared the dorsal funiculi (McCouch et al. 1957; Murray and Goldberger 1974; Hultborn and Malmsten 1983). A recent study used hemisection of the lower lumbar spinal cord (Carter et al. 1991) to study the contributions of interneuronal relays located in these segments (Edgley et al. 1988).
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Kuhtz-Buschbeck, J.P., Boczek-Funcke, A., Weinhardt, C., Illert, M. (1993). Kinematics of the Cat Hindlimb After Spinal Cord Hemisection. In: Thilmann, A.F., Burke, D.J., Rymer, W.Z. (eds) Spasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78367-8_32
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