The relationship of motor unit size, firing rate and force

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1270-1275

  Conwit, R A ^a   Stashuk, D ^e   Tracy, B ^b   McHugh, M ^a   Brown, W F ^c   Metter, E J ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e Gerontology Research Center ^*

Author keywords

EMG signal decomposition; Firing rate; Force generation; Motor unit activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES;

EID: 0033047996     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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