Contractile properties of the tongue's genioglossus muscle and motor units in the rat

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 416-425

  Sutlive, Thomas G ^a   Shall, Mary S ^a   McClung, J Ross ^a   Goldberg, Stephen J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Hypoglossal; Motoneuron; Styloglossus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TONGUE;

EID: 0034002769     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(200003)23:3<416::aid-mus14>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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