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Somatic Spinal Reflexes

Somatic Spinal Reflexes

Somatic spinal reflexes are rapid, involuntary muscular responses to external stimuli that involve the somatic musculature and the spinal cord.
One of the most well-known somatic spinal reflexes is the stretch reflex, which is activated by the sudden stretching of a muscle. This reflex involves the activation of specialized sensory receptors called muscle spindles, which are located in the muscle tissue and detect changes in the length and speed of muscle contractions. When a muscle is suddenly...

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Neurodevelopmental Reflex Testing in Neonatal Rat Pups

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Bruno Law-Ye^1,2, Catherine Adamsbaum^3,4

¹Department of Neuroradiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, APHP, Bicêtre, France.

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

|April 4, 2017

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