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Motor unit

Cell cluster which has as its direct parts motor neuron and skeletal muscle cell.
National Institutes of Health

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Motor NeuronsSkeletal Myocytes

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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Motor potentials evoked by paired cortical stimuli.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Voluntary and reflexive recruitment of flexor carpi radialis motor units in humans.
The order of recruitment of flexor carpi radialis (FCR) motor units was studied during voluntary and reflexive activation of the… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Interactions between motor units and Golgi tendon organs in the tibialis posterior muscle of the cat.
The responses of Golgi tendon organs to single motor unit contractions were studied to determine whether receptors located in the… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
The relationship between soleus and gastrocnemius muscle activity in conscious cats‐‐a model for motor unit recruitment?
Force and electromyogram (e.m.g.) data were recorded from medial gastrocnemius and soleus muscles of conscious cats using… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
The size of motor units during post‐natal development of rat lumbrical muscle.
1. The number of muscle fibres innervated by individual motor neurones (motor unit size) was measured in lumbrical muscles of… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Correlation analysis of muscle spindle responses to single motor unit contractions.
1. Cross‐correlation techniques have been used to study the responses of muscle spindle afferents from the soleus muscle of the… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Correlated Electrophysiological and Ultrastructural Studies of a Crustacean Motor Unit
Structural and functional interrelationships between the pre- and postsynaptic elements of a singly motor innervated crab muscle… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Volume conduction of the spike of the motor unit potential investigated with a new type of multielectrode.
Summary. The spike of motor unit potentials was investigated in the human brachial biceps by means of a multielectrode… 
Highly Cited
1954
Highly Cited
1954
Motor innervation of skeletal muscle: multiple innervation of individual muscle fibres and motor unit function *
Large diameter efferent nerve fibres to skeletal muscle in the cat and frog are concerned with a similar function, namely the… 
Highly Cited
1935
Highly Cited
1935
ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN MOTOR UNITS DURING VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION
Shcrrington (17) defined a motor unit as “an individual motor nervefibre together with the bunch of muscle-fibres it activates… 
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