Plateau potentials and their role in regulating motoneuronal firing

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue , 1999, Pages 39-48

  Hultborn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033399914     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)62842-3     Document Type: Article

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