Cessation of human motor unit discharge during sustained maximal voluntary contraction

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-70

  Peters, Elizabeth J D ^a   Fuglevand, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Motoneuron, Electromyogram; Motor unit; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0032885853     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00666-7     Document Type: Article

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