Reflex regulation during sustained and intermittent submaximal contractions in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 541, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 959-967

  Duchateau, Jacques ^a   Balestra, Costantino ^a   Carpentier, Alain ^a   Hainaut, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPINAL REFLEX; ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HUMAN CELL; LONG LATENCY REFLEX; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION FORCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUSTAINED FATIGUING CONTRACTION FORCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX;

EID: 0037098738     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.016790     Document Type: Article

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