Influence of a voluntary fatigue test on the contralateral homologous muscle in humans?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-44

  Zijdewind, Inge ^a   Zwarts, Machiel J ^b   Kernell, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contralateral activation; Fatigue; First dorsal interosseus; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REST;

EID: 0032575675     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00609-0     Document Type: Article

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