Relation between the size of motor units and the spectral characteristics of their action potentials

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 436-443

  Seki, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Narusawa, Mitsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b International Budo University   (Japan)

Author keywords

First dorsal interosseous; Maximal twitch tension; Size principle; Spike trigger averaging; Surface EMGs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 0031754755     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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