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reflex
(redirected from myotatic reflex)

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See: controlled, repercussion
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Reticulospinal impulses alter muscle spindle sensitivity, thus modulating myotatic reflex sensitivity, but the rhythm for shivering probably reflects the generation within a spinal cord neural network of a rhythmical neural signal whose amplitude is controlled by the intensity of tonic reticulospinal signal.
Unilateral shivering: a result of lateral medullary infarction by Gilbert, Gordon J. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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