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Passive Joint Forces Are Tuned to Limb Use in Insects and Drive Movements without Motor Activity

BACKGROUND: Limb movements are generally driven by active muscular contractions working with and against passive forces arising in muscles and other structures. In relatively heavy limbs, the effects of gravity and inertia predominate, whereas in lighter limbs, passive forces intrinsic to the limb a...

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Autores principales: Ache, Jan M., Matheson, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3739007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23871240
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.06.024