Reflex response changes during hyper and microgravity.
This paper reports the quantitative evaluation of the H-reflex exhibited by parabolic flight with exposure to micro and high-gravity. With respect to previous findings in parabolic flights and short-term space missions, the analysis focused on reflex activity in weightlessness. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gravity on H-reflex and motor evoked potentials (MEP) in soleus muscle (SOL) during parabolic flight.
Sato
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Motor Dysfunction Division, Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled, Saitama, Japan.
Miyoshi
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Nakazawa
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Yano
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Takeoka
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D000328:Adult; D004576:Electromyography; D019054:Evoked Potentials, Motor; D005260:Female; D006181:H-Reflex / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D018471:Hypergravity; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness