In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington OM GBE PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist histologist bacteriologist and a pathologist Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s. Sherrington received the prize for showing that reflexes require integrated activation and demonstrated reciprocal innervation of muscles (Sherrington's Law). Prior to the work of Sherrington and Adrian it was widely accepted that reflexes occurred as isolated activity within a reflex arc.