Motoneurons: A preferred firing range across vertebrate species?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 632-648

  Hornby, T George ^a   McDonagh, Jennifer C ^a   Reinking, Robert M ^a   Stuart, Douglas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Motoneurons; Motor unit discharge rate; Motor units; Muscle force; Plateau potentials; Repetitive discharge

Indexed keywords

CAT; DECEREBRATION; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; TURTLES; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0036237420     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10105     Document Type: Review

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