Excitatory drive to the α-motoneuron pool during a fatiguing submaximal contraction in man

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 491, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 271-280

  Löscher, Wolfgang N ^b   Cresswell, Andrew G ^a   Thorstensson, Alf ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Landesnervenklinik Salzburg ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TREMOR; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

EID: 0029670739     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021214     Document Type: Article

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