Rank-ordered regulation of motor units

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 563-573

  Erim, Zeynep ^a   De Luca, Carlo J ^a,b   Mineo, Kiyoshi ^c   Aoki, Takafumi ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SHIZUOKA CITY SHIMIZU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

common drive; discharge; firing rate; motor control; motor unit; rank ordered; recruitment threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOELECTRICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; HUMANS; LEG; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029920560     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199605)19:5<563::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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