Fatigue responses of human triceps surae muscles during repetitive maximal isometric contractions

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1969-1975

  Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Amemiya, Kenji ^b   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^a   Ikegawa, Shigeki ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Coll   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central and peripheral fatigue; Electrical stimulation; Fiber types; Gastrocnemius and soleus muscles; Plantar flexion; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

EID: 0033938421     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2000.88.6.1969     Document Type: Article

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