Myoelectric manifestations of fatigue during exposure to hypobaric hypoxia for 12 days

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 618-625

  Casale, Roberto ^a   Farina, Dario ^b   Merletti, Roberto ^b   Rainoldi, Alberto ^b,c  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrode arrays; Hypobaric hypoxia; Muscle fatigue; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOELECTRICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; TORQUE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7444225811     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20160     Document Type: Article

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