Interpolated twitches in fatiguing single mouse muscle fibres: Implications for the assessment of central fatigue

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2799-2805

  Place, Nicolas ^a   Yamada, Takashi ^a   Bruton, Joseph D ^a   Westerblad, Håkan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; INDO 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXOR DIGITORUM BREVIS MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; CENTRAL FATIGUE; FLUORESCENCE; FORCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; SINGLE MUSCLE FIBER; TETANY; TWITCH INTERPOLATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 44449105161     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.151910     Document Type: Article

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