Decomposition-enhanced spike-triggered averaging: Contraction level effects

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 976-982

  Conwit, Robin A ^a   Tracy, Brian ^b   Jamison, Chris ^b   McHugh, Megan ^a   Stashuk, Dan ^c   Brown, William F ^d   Metter, E Jeffrey ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraction level effects; Motor unit number estimate; Resistance training effects; Spike triggered averaging; Surface detected motor unit action potential amplitude

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0030747918     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199708)20:8<976::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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