Fatigue of chronically overused motor units in prior polio patients

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 728-737

  Grimby, Lennart ^a   Tollbäck, Anna ^a   Müller, Ulrika ^a   Larsson, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

fatigue; motor unit; muscle fiber; muscle metabolism; poliomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLIOMYELITIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 0029991029     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199606)19:6<728::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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