Recovery of human motoneurons during rotation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Manning, C D ^a   Miller, T A ^a   Burnham, M L ^a   Murnaghan, C D ^a   Calancie, B ^b   Bawa, P ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Fatigue; Human; Motoneuron; Motor unit; Rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REST; ROTATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROBABILITY; REST; ROTATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956208052     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2295-2     Document Type: Article

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