Neural aspects of fatigue

Neuroscientist

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 203-206

  Fuglevand, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Firing rate adaptation; Force frequency relation; Motoneuron; Motor cortex; Motor unit; Muscle; Muscle afferents; Recurrent inhibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001287914     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107385849600200407     Document Type: Review

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