Repetitive doublet Wring of motor units: Evidence for plateau potentials in human motoneurones?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-90

  Kudina, Lydia P ^a   Andreeva, Regina E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Delayed depolarization; Human motoneurones; Motor control; Plateau potentials; Repetitive doublets

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SHOULDER; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 77956197827     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2298-z     Document Type: Article

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