Effects of fatigue on corticospinal excitability of the human knee extensors

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1552-1564

  Kennedy, David S ^a,b   McNeil, Chris J ^a,c   Gandevia, Simon C ^a,b   Taylor, Janet L ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

corticospinal tract; Group III and IV muscle afferents; muscle fatigue; transcranial stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MALE; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; THORACIC SPINE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ISCHEMIA; LOWER LIMB; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84996644412     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/EP085753     Document Type: Article

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