Sustained cycling exercise increases intracortical inhibition

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 654-662

  Sidhu, Simranjit K ^a   Lauber, Benedikt ^b   Cresswell, Andrew G ^a   Carroll, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inhibitory Interneurons; Locomotor Fatigue; Motor Cortex; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BICYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878891200     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31827b119c     Document Type: Article

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