Factors affecting the stability of the spike-triggered averaged force in the human first dorsal interosseus muscle

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-164

  Gossen, E Roderich ^a   Ivanova, Tanya D ^a   Garland, S Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human; Motor unit; Reliability; Spike triggered average

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 0037566348     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(03)00077-3     Document Type: Article

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