Your company wants to design a drug that inhibits unwanted motor contraction. Which is the best target for the drug?

A. The muscle fiber's motor neuron
B. The antagonistic muscle's fibers
C. Descending inputs at the middle level of the motor control hierarchy
D. Golgi tendon organsĀ 
E. Interneurons in the local spinal cord region


Answer: A

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