Firing pattern of type-identified wrist extensor motor units during wrist extension and hand clenching in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 504, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 735-745

  Sturm, Hendrik ^a   Schmied, Annie ^a   Vedel, Jean Pierre ^a   Pagni, Simone ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WRIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND CLENCHING; HAND FUNCTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WRIST EXTENSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES; WRIST;

EID: 0030819227     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.735bd.x     Document Type: Article

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