Transposed firing activation of motor units

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 962-970

  De Luca, Carlo J ^a,b,c   Kline, Joshua C ^a,b   Contessa, Paola ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Firing rate; Motor units; Oscillatory contractions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL;

EID: 84906074866     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00619.2013     Document Type: Article

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