Effects of joint immobilization on firing rate modulation of human motor units

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 530, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 507-519

  Seki, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Taniguchi, Yuko ^a   Narusawa, Mitsuo ^a  

^a International Budo University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBER; TUNGSTEN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FINGER; FINGER JOINT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MODULATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THUMB; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; VOLUNTEER; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMODULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035252793     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.0507k.x     Document Type: Article

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