title: Method for studying muscle properties under orderly stimulated motor units with tripolar nerve cuff electrode.
abstract: An electrical nerve stimulation technique, using single tripolar electrode, was shown to be capable of recruiting motor units according to their size, while allowing simultaneous but independent control of firing rate in the active units. Test paradigms consisting of established fundamental physiological concepts of soleus-gastrocnemius architecture, firing rate behaviour of motor units of different sizes, and their susceptibility to fatigue were employed to validate the technique and demonstrate its utility as a basic and applied research tool.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baratta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ichie
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Solomonow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004566:Electrodes; D004576:Electromyography; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D011999:Recruitment, Neurophysiological