Relationship of firing intervals of human motor units to the trajectory of post-spike after-hyperpolarization and synaptic noise

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 492, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 597-628

  Matthews, Peter B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0029917628     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021332     Document Type: Article

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