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Postnatal temporal, spatial and modality tuning of nociceptive cutaneous flexion reflexes in human infants
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Cutaneous flexion reflexes are amongst the first behavioural responses to develop and are essential for the protection and survival of the newborn organism. Despite this, there has been no detailed, quantitative study of their maturation in human neonates. Here we use surface electromyographic (EMG) recording of biceps femoris activity in preterm (<37 weeks gestation, GA) and term (≥37 weeks GA) human infants, less than 14 days old, in response to tactile, punctate and clinically required ...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0076470
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS ONE More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 10
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- ARTN e76470
- Publication date:
- 2013-10-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-08-28
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1932-6203
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- 2013
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- Copyright: © 2013 Cornelissen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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