Modeling of summation of individual twitches into unfused tetanus for various types of rat motor units

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-130

  Raikova, Rositsa ^a   Celichowski, Jan ^b   Pogrzebna, Magdalena ^b   Aladjov, Hristo ^a   Krutki, Piotr ^b  

^a CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Modeling; Motor units; Rat; Skeletal muscle; Twitch; Unfused tetanus

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAXATION SENSATION; TETANUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS;

EID: 33846681263     PISSN: 10506411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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