Control of motor units in human flexor digitorum profundus under different proprioceptive conditions

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 502, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 693-701

  Garland, S Jayne ^a,b   Miles, Timothy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTAL PHALANX; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; FIRING RATE; FLEXOR DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 0030760781     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.693bj.x     Document Type: Article

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