Skip to main content
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine logoLink to Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
. 1977 Dec;53(10):869–879.

The motor unit: revisited.

J Goodgold
PMCID: PMC1807430  PMID: 271025

Full text

PDF
869

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. BUCHTHAL F., GULD C., ROSENFALCK P. Volume conduction of the spike of the motor unit potential investigated with a new type of multielectrode. Acta Physiol Scand. 1957 Mar 7;38(3-4):331–354. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1957.tb01396.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. Ballantyne J. P., Hansen S. A new method for the estimation of the number of motor units in a muscle. I. Control subjects and patients with myasthenia gravis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1974 Aug;37(8):907–915. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.37.8.907. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Ballantyne J. P., Hansen S. New method for the estimation of the number of motor units in a muscle. 2. Duchenne, limb-girdle and facioscapulohumeral, and myotonic muscular dystrophies. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1974 Nov;37(11):1195–1201. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.37.11.1195. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Buchthal F., Schmalbruch H. Contraction times and fibre types in intact human muscle. Acta Physiol Scand. 1970 Aug;79(4):435–452. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1970.tb04744.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. EKSTEDT J. HUMAN SINGLE MUSCLE FIBER ACTION POTENTIALS. EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING DURING VOLUNTARY AND CHEMICAL ACTIVATION. WITH SOME COMMENTS ON END-PLATE PHYSIOLOGY AND ON THE FIBER ARRANGEMENT OF THE MOTOR UNIT. Acta Physiol Scand Suppl. 1964:SUPPL 226–226:1+. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Edström L., Kugelberg E. Histochemical composition, distribution of fibres and fatiguability of single motor units. Anterior tibial muscle of the rat. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1968 Oct;31(5):424–433. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.31.5.424. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Henneman E., Somjen G., Carpenter D. O. Excitability and inhibitability of motoneurons of different sizes. J Neurophysiol. 1965 May;28(3):599–620. doi: 10.1152/jn.1965.28.3.599. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Law P. K., Cosmos E., Butler J., McComas A. J. The absence of dystrophic characteristics in normal muscles successfully cross-reinnervated by nerves of dystrophic genotype: physiological and cytochemical study of crossed solei of normal and dystrophic parabiotic mice. Exp Neurol. 1976 Apr;51(1):1–21. doi: 10.1016/0014-4886(76)90050-9. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. McComas A. J., Sica R. E., Upton A. R., Petito F. Trophic functions of the neuron. IV. Clinical disorders of trophic functions muscular dystrophy? Sick motoneurons and muscle disease. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1974 Mar 22;228(0):261–279. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1974.tb20514.x. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. NORRIS F. H., Jr, IRWIN R. L. Motor unit area in a rat muscle. Am J Physiol. 1961 May;200:944–946. doi: 10.1152/ajplegacy.1961.200.5.944. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. Panayiotopoulos C. P., Scarpalezos S., Papapetropoulos T. Electrophysiological estimation of motor units in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. J Neurol Sci. 1974 Sep;23(1):89–98. doi: 10.1016/0022-510x(74)90145-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. Rosenfalck P. Intra- and extracellular potential fields of active nerve and muscle fibres. A physico-mathematical analysis of different models. Acta Physiol Scand Suppl. 1969;321:1–168. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine are provided here courtesy of New York Academy of Medicine

RESOURCES