Relations between the shapes of different muscle potentials. Experimental and model investigations

Intracellular muscle action potentials, the corresponding to them extracellular action potentials recorded at short and long radial distances, extraterritorial motor unit potentials, evoked muscle potentials (M-, H- and T-potentials) and averaged potentials of the summated electromyogram were studied experimentally and compared with the calculated potentials. The similarity in the shape of the different muscle potentials and some second-rate differences were explained taking into account the point of recording, the different degree of desynchronization of the summated potentials and some other factors.