Differential joint-specific corticospinal tract projections within the cervical enlargement.

The motor cortex represents muscle and joint control and projects to spinal cord interneurons and-in many primates, including humans-motoneurons, via the corticospinal tract (CST). To examine these spinal CST anatomical mechanisms, we determined if motor cortex sites controlling individual forelimb...

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Main Authors: Curtis O Asante, John H Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3776849?pdf=render