Repeatability of corticospinal and spinal measures during lengthening and shortening contractions in the human tibialis anterior muscle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Tallent, Jamie ^a   Goodall, Stuart ^a   Hortobágyi, Tibor ^b   St Clair Gibson, Alan ^a   French, Duncan N ^a   Howatson, Glyn ^a,c  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860366318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035930     Document Type: Article

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