Altered responses of human elbow flexors to peripheral-nerve and cortical stimulation during a sustained maximal voluntary contraction

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-115

  Taylor, Janet L ^a,b   Butler, Jane E ^a,b   Gandevia, S C ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Magnetic stimulation; Motoneurone; Motor cortex; Voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELBOW; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 0033028954     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050779     Document Type: Article

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