The nature of facilitation of leg muscle motor evoked potentials by knee flexion

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 322-329

  Izumi, S I ^a   Furukawa, T ^a   Koyama, Y ^a   Ishida, A ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biceps femoris; Facilitation; Heteronymous muscle; Motor evoked potentials; Presynaptic inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANKLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0035663276     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590120089000     Document Type: Article

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