Motor units are recruited in a task-dependent fashion during locomotion

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 3883-3890

  Wakeling, James M ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Muscle fibre recruitment; Myoelectric signal; PC loading; Principal component analysis; Task dependence

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 10344231513     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01223     Document Type: Article

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