ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Characteristics of motor unit recruitment in boys and men at maximal and submaximal force levels.
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- A question of rate? Girl-women differences in motor unit firing rate.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Neuromuscular electrical stimulation producing low evoked force elicits the repeated bout effect on muscle damage markers of the elbow flexors.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Article
- Motor unit firing rates during slow and fast contractions in boys and men.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Resistance training effects on pubertal children with a risk of developing pediatric dynapenia.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Different discrete motor-unit activation patterns in the flexor carpi radialis in boys and men.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Post-activation potentiation and potentiated motor unit firing patterns in boys and men.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Boys-men mean-power-frequency differences in progressive exercise to exhaustion, confounded by variability and adiposity.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Comparisons of muscle strength, size, and voluntary activation in pre- and post-pubescent males and females.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Differential Changed Excitability of Spinal Motor Neurons Innervating Tibialis Anterior and Peroneus Muscles Cause Foot Inversion After Stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to compare voluntary activation (VA) and motor units (MU) recruitment patterns between boys and men at different contraction levels of the knee extensor muscles. We hypothesized that boys and men would display similar VA and MU recruitment patterns at low submaximal force levels, but that boys would display a lower utilization of their higher-threshold MU and a lower VA at near-maximal and maximal force levels than men. 11 prepubertal boys and 13 men were tested at the optimal knee angle. Next, VA was assessed using the twitch interpolation technique during maximal (MVC) and submaximal isometric voluntary contractions. Mean firing rate (MFR), recruitment threshold (RT) and motor unit action potential size (MUAP
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