Innervation ratio and motor unit force in large muscles: A study of chronically stimulated cat medial gastrocnemius

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 499, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 809-823

  Rafuse, Victor F ^a   Pattullo, Mary C ^a   Gordon, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GLYCOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBRIL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030895937     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1997.sp021970     Document Type: Article

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