The time course of the motoneurone afterhyperpolarization is related to motor unit twitch speed in human skeletal muscle

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 552, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 657-664

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; MOTOR UNIT DISCHARGE RATE; MOTOR UNIT TWITCH SPEED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0142181030     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.048132     Document Type: Article

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