Ballistic contractions in fast or slow human muscles; discharge patterns of single motor units
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 285 (1) , 185-196
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1978.sp012566
Abstract
1. Single motor units were recorded from the masseter, soleus and first dorsal interosseous muscles of normal adult man. An analysis of discharge patterns was carried out either during slow ramp voluntary contractions, or during self-initiated isolated ballistic voluntary contractions. The isometric myogram was simultaneously recorded.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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