Motor unit action potential duration and muscle length

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1188-1195

  Dumitru, Daniel ^a   King, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Far field potential; Intracellular action potential; Motor unit; Motor unit action potential; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032870312     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199909)22:9<1188::AID-MUS4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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