Motor unit firing behavior in human arm flexor muscles during sinusoidal isometric contractions and movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 120-130

  Van Bolhuis, B M ^a   Medendorp, W P ^a   Gielen, C C A M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human; Isometric tasks; Motor unit; Movements

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ELBOW; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0030804323     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050205     Document Type: Article

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