Neuromuscular Adjustments of the Quadriceps Muscle after Repeated Cycling Sprints

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Girard, Olivier ^a   Bishop, David J ^b   Racinais, Sébastien ^a  

^a ASPETAR ORTHOPAEDIC AND SPORTS MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CYCLING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMORAL NERVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; INNERVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BICYCLING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84877071022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061793     Document Type: Article

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