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On a motor-driven treadband decerebrateCuniculina usually walked regularly, but only forwards. Animals having only the two forelegs showed the same behavior. Decerebrate animals with just the two hindlegs walked only backwards.
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In the duration of the electrical activity of the depressor and levator muscles of the trochanter and the extensor and flexor muscles of the tibia, there was no significant difference between the forward walking forelegs of these animals and the active walk of the forelegs of an intact insect.
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Abbreviations
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common inhibitor
- FETi :
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fast extensor tibiae motor neuron
- SETi :
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slow extensor tibiae motor neuron
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Bässler, U. Afferent control of walking movements in the stick insectCuniculina impigra . J. Comp. Physiol. 158, 345–349 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00603618
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