The influence of a doublet of stimuli at the beginning of the tetanus on its time course

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-53

  Celichowski, Jan ^a   Grottel, Kazimierz ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Doublet; Motor unit; Tension; Tetanic fusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031884009     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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