Abdominal motor unit activity during respiratory and nonrespiratory tasks

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1707-1715

  Puckree, Threethambal ^a   Cerny, Frank ^a   Bishop, Beverly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal motor control; Firing profiles; Functional organization; Motor pools; Motor unit recruitment; Single motor units; Task groups

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL;

EID: 0031958617     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.84.5.1707     Document Type: Article

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