Some unresolved issues in motor unit research

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 508, Issue , 2002, Pages 171-178

  Burke, Robert E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036025038     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0713-0_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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