Studies of decerebrate and spinal cats and monkeys as carried out by the authors over a number of years are reviewed. Factors responsible for early and late changes in reflex activity are considered. Hyperreflexia, as a late event, in chronic spinal animals is chiefly attributed to sprouting from afferent axons.
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