The effects of long-term bed rest on H-reflex and motor evoked potential in the human soleus muscle during standing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-104

  Yamanaka, Kentaro ^a,b   Yamamoto, Shin Ichiroh ^a   Nakazawa, Kimitaka ^a   Yano, Hideo ^a   Suzuki, Yoji ^c   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b  

^a National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Seigakuin University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bed rest; H reflex; M response; Motor evoked potential; Soleus muscle; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BODY POSTURE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE;

EID: 0033532029     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00284-0     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Ackermann H., Scholz E., Koehler W., Dichgans J. Influence of posture and voluntary background contraction upon compound muscle action potentials from anterior tibial and soleus muscle following transcranial magnetic stimulation. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol. 81:1991;71-80.
2. Collins J.J., De Luca C.J., Pavlik A.E., Roy S.H., Emley M.S. The effects of spaceflight on open-loop and closed-loop postural control mechanisms: human neurovestibular studies on SLS-2. Exp. Brain Res. 107:1995;145-150.
3. Duchateau J. Bed rest induces neural and contractile adaptations in triceps surae. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 12:1995;1581-1589.
4. Duchateau J., Hainaut K. Effects of immobilization on contractile properties, recruitment and firing rates of human motor units. J. Physiol. (Lond). 422:1990;55-65.
5. Katz R., Meunier S., Pierrot-Deseilligny E. Changes in presynaptic inhibition of Ia fibres in man while standing. Brain. 111:1988;417-437.
6. Keck M.E., Pijnappels M., Schubert M., Colombo G., Curt A., Dietz V. Stumbling reactions in man: influence of corticospinal input. Electroenceph. clin. Neurophysiol. 109:1998;215-223.
7. Koceja D.M., Trimble M.H., Earles D.R. Inhibition of the soleus H-reflex in standing man. Brain. Res. 629:1993;155-158.
8. Lavoie B.A., Cody F.W.J., Capaday C. Cortical control of human soleus muscle during volitional and postural activities studied using focal magnetic stimulation. Exp. Brain Res. 103:1995;97-107.
9. Nielsen J., Petersen N. Is presynaptic inhibition distributed to corticospinal fibres in man? J. Physiol. (Lond.). 477:1994;47-58.
10. Reschke M.F., Anderson D.J., Homick J.L. Vestibulo-spinal response modification as determined with the H-reflex during the Spacelab-1 flight. Exp. Brain Res. 64:1986;367-379.
11. Roll R., Gilhodes J.C., Roll J.P., Popov K., Charade O., Gurfinkel V. Proprioceptive information processing in weightlessness. Exp. Brain Res. 122:1998;393-402.
12. Schieppati M. The Hoffmann reflex: a means of assessing spinal reflex excitability and its descending control in man. Prog. Neurobiol. 28:1987;345-376.
13. Schubert M., Curt A., Jensen L., Dietz V. Corticospinal input in human gait: modulation of magnetically evoked motor responses. Exp. Brain Res. 115:1997;234-246.