Afterhyperpolarization time-course and minimal discharge rate in low threshold motor units in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  MacDonell, Christopher W ^a   Ivanova, Tanya D ^a   Garland, S Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Discharge rate; Human; Motoneurone; Motor unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 46649116909     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1400-2     Document Type: Article

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