New display of the timing and firing frequency of single motor units

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 287-292

  Saboisky, Julian P ^a,b   Butler, Jane E ^a,b   Walsh, Lee D ^a,b   Gandevia, Simon C ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frequency; Locomotion; Motor unit; Respiration; Timing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INHALATION; KINETICS; MOTOR NEURONS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES;

EID: 34047125185     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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