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Front Hum Neurosci. 2017 Sep 27;11:475. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00475. eCollection 2017.

Cough-Anal Reflex May Be the Expression of a Pre-Programmed Postural Action.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Paolo Cavallari, Francesco Bolzoni, Roberto Esposti, Carlo Bruttini

Affiliations

  1. Human Motor Control and Posture Lab, Section Human Physiology of the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di MilanoMilan, Italy.

PMID: 29021750 PMCID: PMC5624195 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00475

Abstract

When coughing, an involuntary contraction of the external anal sphincter occurs, in order to prevent unwanted leakages or sagging of the pelvis muscular wall. Literature originally described such

Keywords: common mechanism; cough; cough-anal reflex; external anal sphincter; inter-limb APAs; intra-limb APAs

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