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IT is commonly held that the vestibulo-spinal apparatus is responsible for maintaining the spastic condition which occurs after decerebration and other operations. Recently, Schreiner, Lindsley and Magoun1 and others have suggested that the reticulo-spinal mechanism is more likely to be implicated. In this connexion the following observations upon an anuran, Bufo marinus, are of interest.
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ABBIE, A., ADEY, W. The Reticulo-Spinal Apparatus and Rigidity. Nature 166, 71 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166071a0
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