Common Input to Motor Neurons Innervating the Same and Different Compartments of the Human Extensor Digitorum Muscle

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-62

  Keen, Douglas A ^a   Fuglevand, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS;

EID: 0347088852     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00650.2003     Document Type: Article

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