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Open AccessInfluence of nitrate supplementation on motor unit activity during recovery following a sustained ischemic contraction in recreationally active young males
Dietary nitrate (NO3−) supplementation enhances muscle blood flow and metabolic efficiency in hypoxia, however, its efficacy on neuromuscular function and specifically, the effect on motor unit (MU) activity is l...
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Open AccessMenstrual Cycle Associated Alteration of Vastus Lateralis Motor Unit Function
Estrogen and progesterone are the primary female sex hormones and have net excitatory and inhibitory effects, respectively, on neuronal function. Fluctuating concentrations across the menstrual cycle has led t...
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Neuromuscular Function: Intramuscular Electromyography
Intramuscular electromyography (iEMG) enables the detection of propagating action potentials in contracting skeletal muscles and has provided a wealth of information on the neural input to muscle and its respo...
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Open AccessLifelong exercise is associated with more homogeneous motor unit potential features across deep and superficial areas of vastus lateralis
Motor unit (MU) expansion enables rescue of denervated muscle fibres hel** to ameliorate age-related muscle atrophy, with evidence to suggest master athletes are more successful at this remodelling. Electrop...
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Validating motor unit firing patterns extracted by EMG signal decomposition
Motor unit (MU) firing pattern information can be used clinically or for physiological investigation. It can also be used to enhance and validate electromyographic (EMG) signal decomposition. However, in all i...
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Open AccessAssessing motor deficits in compressive neuropathy using quantitative electromyography
Studying the changes that occur in motor unit potential trains (MUPTs) may provide insight into the extent of motor unit loss and neural re-organization resulting from nerve compression injury. The purpose of ...
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Open AccessBayesian aggregation versus majority vote in the characterization of non-specific arm pain based on quantitative needle electromyography
Methods for the calculation and application of quantitative electromyographic (EMG) statistics for the characterization of EMG data detected from forearm muscles of individuals with and without pain associated...
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Open AccessMotor unit potential morphology differences in individuals with non-specific arm pain and lateral epicondylitis
The pathophysiology of non-specific arm pain (NSAP) is unclear and the diagnosis is made by excluding other specific upper limb pathologies, such as lateral epicondylitis or cervical radiculopathy. The purpose...
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Diversity-based combination of non-parametric classifiers for EMG signal decomposition
Non-parametric classification procedures based on a certainty measure and nearest neighbour rule for motor unit potential classification (MUP) during electromyographic (EMG) signal decomposition were explored....
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Statistically Based Pattern Discovery Techniques for Biological Data Analysis
A statistically based pattern discovery tool is presented that produces a rule-based description of complex data through the set of its statistically significant associations. The rules resulting from this ana...
