Muscle Fatigue Affects the Interpolated Twitch Technique When Assessed Using Electrically-Induced Contractions in Human and Rat Muscles

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Neyroud, Daria ^a   Cheng, Arthur J ^b   Bourdillon, Nicolas ^a   Kayser, Bengt ^a   Place, Nicolas ^a   Westerblad, Håkan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

central fatigue; contractile properties; interpolated twitch; M wave; voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029705774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00252     Document Type: Article

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