Different motor neuron spike patterns produce contractions with very similar rises in graded slow muscles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1428-1444

  Hooper, Scott L ^a,b   Guschlbauer, Christoph ^b   Von Uckermann, Géraldine ^b   Büschges, Ansgar ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; INSECT; LEG MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW MUSCLE; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33846921243     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01014.2006     Document Type: Article

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