[Synchronization of discharges of human motor units during voluntary muscle contractions and tonic vibration reflex]

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Simultaneous Intracellular Recording of a Lumbar Motoneuron and the Force Produced by its Motor Unit in the Adult Mouse In vivo
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Simultaneous Intracellular Recording of a Lumbar Motoneuron and the Force Produced by its Motor Unit in the Adult Mouse In vivo

Published on: December 5, 2012

G V Kozhina, R S Person, B N Smetanii

    Neirofiziologiia = Neurophysiology
    |January 1, 1991
    PubMed

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