In the bottom figure, the reversal current I_r shown exaggerated for clarity. Suppression of Crossed Extensor Reflex. Force developed in the Soleus muscle (Fs) by spinal reflex from skin afferents on ...

Crossed phenomena included plantar flexion of the foot and visible tightening of the anterior and posterior thigh musculature. The abdominal wall was not involved in the flexion reflex.

Isometric myograms of the crossed knee-extensor reflex examined in the purely “spinal” preparation present the features interpretable as “recruitment” very much as in the decerebrate ...

Similar comparison of the crossed “reflex of the knee extensor with the “motor-rterve” tetani of that muscle shows that the reflex tetanus develops much the more slowly, and that the ratio ...