Motor-unit synchrony within and across compartments of the human flexor digitorum superficialis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 550-556

  McIsaac, Tara L ^a   Fuglevand, Andrew J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33846442863     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01071.2006     Document Type: Article

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