Dynamics of corticospinal changes during and after high-intensity quadriceps exercise

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1053-1064

  Gruet, Mathieu ^a,b,c   Temesi, John ^d,e   Rupp, Thomas ^a,b   Levy, Patrick ^a,b   Verges, Samuel ^a,b   Millet, Guillaume Y ^b,d,e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORTICOSPINAL CHANGE; ELECTRICAL FEMORAL NERVE STIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE STIMULATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KNEE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84905245986     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2014.078840     Document Type: Article

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