Motoneuron double discharges: Only one or two different entities?

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

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

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Delayed depolarization; Double discharges; Human motor control; Motoneuron firing behavior; Voluntary muscle contraction

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84877291912     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00075     Document Type: Article

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