The time course of the last contractions during incompletely fused tetani of motor units in rat skeletal muscle

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 7-17

  Celichowski, Jan ^a   Bichler, Edyta ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Contraction; Medial gastrocnemius; Motor unit; Rat; Unfused tetanus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RELAXATION TIME; SLOW MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036185762     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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