Contractile properties of knee-extensors in one single family with nemaline myopathy: Central and peripheral aspects of muscle activation

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 217-224

  Gerrits, Karin ^a   Pauw Gommans, Inge ^b   van Engelen, Baziel ^b   de Haan, Arnold ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central drive; Electrical simulation; Isometric contraction; Joint angle; Neuromuscular disease; Quadriceps

Indexed keywords

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; NEMALINE MYOPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOPATHIES, NEMALINE; PHENOTYPE; TORQUE;

EID: 34250681796     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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