Task dependence of Ia presynaptic inhibition in human wrist extensor muscles: A single motor unit study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1165-1174

  Aimonetti, J M ^a   Vedel, J P ^a   Schmied, A ^a   Pagni, S ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Humans; Ia presynaptic inhibition; Motor units; Muscle afferents; Task dependence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WRIST;

EID: 0034237298     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00293-5     Document Type: Article

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