Relationship between skin temperature and muscle activation during incremental cycle exercise

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-35

  Priego Quesada, Jose I ^a,b,c   Carpes, Felipe P ^c   Bini, Rodrigo R ^d   Salvador Palmer, Rosario ^a   Pérez Soriano, Pedro ^b   Cibrián Ortiz de Anda, Rosa Ma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PAMPA   (Brazil)

^d Brazilian Center for Physical Research   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Fatigue; Motor control; Thermography; Thermoregulation; Vastus lateralis

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MEDIALIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUS FEMORIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THERMOREGULATION; VASTUS LATERALIS; ADULT; EXERCISE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919898043     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2014.12.005     Document Type: Article

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