Reply to Boonstra: The nature of periodic input to the muscle

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 577-

  Christou, Evangelos A ^a,b   Neto, Osmar P ^a,b,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CAMILO CASTELO BRANCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOMANIPULATION; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; LETTER; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; SIMULATION;

EID: 77954436580     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00489.2010     Document Type: Letter

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