Firing rate of the lower motoneuron and contractile properties of its muscle fibers after upper motoneuron lesion in man

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 938-947

  Frontera, Walter R ^a,b   Grimby, Lennart ^a   Larsson, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor units; Myosin heavy chain; Shortening velocity; Skinned single muscle fibers; Stroke

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SKINNED MUSCLE FIBER; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; MYOSINS; VOLITION;

EID: 0030747479     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199708)20:8<938::AID-MUS2>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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