Neuromuscular Frequency-Coding and Fatigue

Neurobiology of muscle fatigue

1992 • 1,341 citations

Motor control mechanisms in health and disease

1983 • 1,194 citations

The effects of length and stimulus rate on tension in the isometric cat soleus muscle

1969 • 1,117 citations

Fatigue of long duration in human skeletal muscle after exercise.

1977 • 777 citations

Archives Italiennes de biologie

1956 • 632 citations

Excitation frequency and muscle fatigue: Mechanical responses during voluntary and stimulated contractions

1979 • 591 citations

Contractile speed and EMG changes during fatigue of sustained maximal voluntary contractions

1983 • 537 citations

Ballistic contractions in man: characteristic recruitment pattern of single motor units of the tibialis anterior muscle.

1977 • 532 citations

The isometric responses of mammalian muscles

1930 • 449 citations

Changes in motoneurone firing rates during sustained maximal voluntary contractions.

1983 • 437 citations

The effect of activation history on tension production by individual muscle units

1976 • 378 citations

Effect of muscle temperature on leg extension force and short-term power output in humans

1987 • 354 citations

Membrane electrical properties and prediction of motor-unit type of medial gastrocnemius motoneurons in the cat

1985 • 310 citations

Generation of Maxwell displacement current from spread monolayers containing azobenzene

1992 • 298 citations

The Limits of Firing Frequency in Cat Lumbosacral Motoneurones Possessing Different Time Course of Afterhyperpolarization

1965 • 275 citations

"Muscular wisdom" that minimizes fatigue during prolonged effort in man: peak rates of motoneuron discharge and slowing of discharge during fatigue.

1983 • 272 citations

Evidence for a fatigue-induced reflex inhibition of motoneuron firing rates

1987 • 267 citations

The firing rates of human motoneurones voluntarily activated in the absence of muscle afferent feedback.

1993 • 265 citations

Synaptic effects on recruitment gain: a mechanism of importance for the input-output relations of motoneurone pools?

1990 • 239 citations

The rate of tension development in isometric tetanic contractions of mammalian fast and slow skeletal muscle

1965 • 200 citations

Nonlinear summation of contractions in cat muscles. II. Later facilitation and stiffness changes.

1981 • 198 citations

Temperature‐dependence of shortening velocity and rate of isometric tension development in rat skeletal muscle

1982 • 193 citations

High-Frequency Repetitive Firing of Cat Lumbosacral Motoneurones Stimulated by Long-Lasting Injected Currents

1965 • 191 citations

Differences in the activation of m. biceps brachii in the control of slow isotonic movements and isometric contractions

1989 • 189 citations

Relation between isometric force and stimulus rate in cat's hindlimb motor units of different twitch contraction time

1983 • 188 citations

Time course and properties of late adaptation in spinal motoneurones of the cat

1982 • 181 citations

The motor units of cat medial gastrocnemius: Electrical and mechanical properties as a function of muscle length

1975 • 173 citations

On the regulation of repetitive firing in lumbar motoneurones during fictive locomotion in the cat

1992 • 158 citations

Motoneurone properties and motor fatigue

1982 • 157 citations

Matching between motoneurone and muscle unit properties in rat medial gastrocnemius.

1993 • 130 citations

Muscle temperature, contractile speed, and motoneuron firing rates during human voluntary contractions

1992 • 129 citations

Use of a catchlike property of human skeletal muscle to reduce fatigue

1991 • 126 citations

Voluntary discharge frequencies of human motoneurons at different muscle lengths

1992 • 124 citations

Force-frequency relationships of human thenar motor units

1991 • 121 citations

Organized variability in the neuromuscular system: a survey of task-related adaptations.

1992 • 117 citations

Adaptation of cat motoneurons to sustained and intermittent extracellular activation.

1993 • 101 citations

The effect of the stimulation pattern on the fatigue of single motor units in adult cats.

1992 • 90 citations

Force output of cat motor units stimulated with trains of linearly varying frequency

1989 • 88 citations

Properties of motor units in the first deep lumbrical muscle of the cat's foot

1975 • 83 citations

Contraction time and voluntary discharge properties of individual short toe extensor motor units in man.

1979 • 80 citations

Human muscle fatigue: frequency dependence of excitation and force generation.

1988 • 79 citations

The effect of muscle length on motor unit discharge characteristics in human tibialis anterior muscle

1991 • 76 citations

Gradation of isometric tension by different activation rates in motor units of cat flexor carpi radialis muscle

1986 • 75 citations

Metabolic changes with fatigue in different types of single muscle fibres of Xenopus laevis.

1992 • 64 citations

After‐effects of repetitive stimulation at low frequency on fast‐contracting motor units of cat muscle.

1983 • 61 citations

The “fastness” of rat motoneurones: time-course of afterhyperpolarization in relation to axonal conduction velocity and muscle unit contractile speed

1990 • 52 citations

How different afferent inputs control motoneuron discharge and the output of the motoneuron pool

1993 • 48 citations

Effects of low-frequency stimulation on the tension-frequency relations of fast-twitch motor units in the cat

1991 • 43 citations

The dynamic response of cat gastrocnemius motor units investigated by ramp‐current injection into their motoneurones.

1987 • 40 citations

Average but not continuous speed match between motoneurons and muscle units of rat tibialis anterior

1993 • 36 citations

Effect of velocity and mechanical history on the forces of motor units in the cat medial gastrocnemius muscle

1992 • 34 citations

Alterations in motoneuron properties induced by acute dorsal spinal hemisection in the decerebrate cat

1991 • 29 citations

Threshold-spacing in motoneurone pools of rat and cat: possible relevance for manner of force gradation

1994 • 17 citations