Properties of spike potentials detected by a surface electrode in intact human muscle

The Japanese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 71-80

  Morimoto, Shigeru ^a   Umazume, Yoshiki ^a   Masuda, Makoto ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CELL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SPIKE; SURFACE ELECTRODE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COLD; ELECTRODES; HEAT; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLES;

EID: 0018818724     PISSN: 0021521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/jjphysiol.30.71     Document Type: Article

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