Effect of muscle-fiber velocity recovery function on motor unit action potential properties in voluntary contractions

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 650-658

  Farina, Dario ^a   Falla, Deborah ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Interference EMG; Motor unit action potentials; Muscle fiber conduction velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE RECOVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VELOCITY RECOVERY FUNCTION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42549100402     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20948     Document Type: Article

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