Effect of muscle length on the recruitment property of single motor units in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-52

  Tanaka, Junichi ^a   Mashiko, Norifumi ^a   Kawakami, Ayako ^a   Hatakenaka, Satoko ^a   Fujisawa, Shigeko ^b   Nomura, Masahiko ^c  

^a NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Motor unit; Muscle length; Muscle spindle; Ramp contraction speed; Recruitment threshold; Voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; TORQUE; VELOCITY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TORQUE;

EID: 0037174777     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00916-3     Document Type: Article

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