Organisation of common inputs to motoneuron pools of human masticatory muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1931-1940

  Jaberzadeh, Shapour ^a   Miles, Timothy S ^a   Nordstrom, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antagonists; Digastric; Masseter; Synchronization; Temporalis; Trigeminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCISOR; JAW; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MASTICATION; MASTICATORY MUSCLES; MOTOR NEURONS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33747332607     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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