Muscle but not cutaneous C‐afferent input produces prolonged increases in the excitability of the flexion reflex in the rat.

PD Wall, CJ Woolf - The Journal of physiology, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
Stimulation of cutaneous afferent fibres in the sural nerve and muscle afferent fibres in the
gastrocnemius‐soleus nerve at a strength that excites C axons produces a delayed and long …

Relative effectiveness of C primary afferent fibers of different origins in evoking a prolonged facilitation of the flexor reflex in the rat

CJ Woolf, PD Wall - Journal of Neuroscience, 1986 - Soc Neuroscience
Changes in the excitability of the hamstring flexor withdrawal reflex produced by
conditioning stimuli applied to C-afferent fibers of different origins have been examined in …

Prolonged C-fibre mediated facilitation of the flexion reflex in the rat is not due to changes in afferent terminal or motoneurone excitability

AJ Cook, CJ Woolf, PD Wall - Neuroscience letters, 1986 - Elsevier
A standard suprathreshold mechanical stimulus applied to the hindpaw of decerebrate-
spinal rats produces a discharge in hamstring flexor α-motoneurones which is stable for …

The brief and the prolonged facilitatory effects of unmyelinated afferent input on the rat spinal cord are independently influenced by peripheral nerve section

PD Wall, CJ Woolf - Neuroscience, 1986 - Elsevier
Single C-fibre strength stimuli applied to the sciatic nerve in the decerebrate spinal rat evoke
three separate bursts of activity in posterior biceps/semitendinosus flexor alpha …

Injury-induced plasticity of the flexor reflex in chronic decerebrate rats

CJ Woolf, SB McMahon - Neuroscience, 1985 - Elsevier
The hindlimb-flexor-withdrawal reflex elicited by stimulation of the skin of the hindpaw has
been examined in chronic decerebrate rats. This flexor reflex manifests as a typical phasic …

Temporal summation of C-fiber afferent inputs: competition between facilitatory and inhibitory effects on C-fiber reflex in the rat

M Gozariu, D Bragard, JC Willer… - Journal of …, 1997 - journals.physiology.org
Gozariu, Manuela, Dominique Bragard, Jean-Claude Willer, and Daniel Le Bars. Temporal
summation of C-fiber afferent inputs: competition between facilitatory and inhibitory effects …

The cutaneous contribution to the hamstring flexor reflex in the rat: an electrophysiological and anatomical study

CJ Woolf, JE Swett - Brain research, 1984 - Elsevier
The location and properties of the cutaneous receptive fields responsible for detecting the
flexor withdrawal reflex in the posterior head of biceps femoris (pBF) and semitendinosus …

Physiological properties of unmyelinated fiber projection to the spinal cord

LM Mendell - Experimental neurology, 1966 - Elsevier
Sixty per cent of the cells in the spinocervical tract responding monosynaptically to
stimulation of peripheral myelinated fibers were found to respond also to stimulation of …

Task‐dependent changes in the responses to low‐threshold cutaneous afferent volleys in the human lower limb.

D Burke, HG Dickson, NF Skuse - The Journal of Physiology, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
1. In seven human subjects who were standing without support the sural nerves were
stimulated electrically using trains of non‐painful stimuli (five pulses at 300 Hz), designed to …

Evidence favouring presynaptic inhibition between antagonist muscle afferents in the human forearm.

A Berardelli, BL Day, CD Marsden… - The Journal of …, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
1. A single motor‐threshold electrical stimulus to the radial nerve in the spiral groove
produced three phases of inhibition in the H reflex of relaxed wrist and finger flexor muscles …