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Motoneuron and sensory neuron plasticity to varying neuromuscular activity levels
Akihiko Ishihara1, Roland R Roy, Yoshinobu Ohira
1Laboratory of Neurochemistry, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. ishihara@life.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
|February 4, 2003
Abstract:
The size and phenotypic properties of the neural and muscular elements of the neuromuscular unit are matched under normal conditions. When subjected to chronic decreases or increases in neuromuscular activity, however, the adaptations in these properties are much more limited in the neural compared with the muscular elements.