Comparison of the contractile responses to irregular and regular trains of stimuli during microstimulation of single human motor axons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1499-1506

  Leitch, Michael ^a   Macefield, Vaughan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catch like properties; Discharge variability; Motoneurone; Rate coding; Single motor unit

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM BREVIS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900805697     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00835.2013     Document Type: Article

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