Variability of the twitch parameters of the rat medial gastrocnemius motor units-experimental and modeling study

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1572-1581

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

^a CENTRE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Modeling; Motor units; Rat; Statistics; Twitch

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RATS; STATISTICS;

ARTIFACTS; RAT MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS MOTORS; TWITCH PARAMETERS;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 34548443416     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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