Endurance training alters the biophysical properties of hindlimb motoneurons in rats

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-236

  Beaumont, Eric ^a   Gardiner, Phillip F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activity; Electrophysiology; Endurance training; Motoneuron properties; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; ION CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIA; TRAINING; TREADMILL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0037309689     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10308     Document Type: Article

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