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Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

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Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

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Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

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New York: Nature Publishing Group US

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Nature medicine, 2010-10, Vol.16 (10), p.1161-1165

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English

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New York: Nature Publishing Group US

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From a therapeutic standpoint, one of the main drawbacks of artificial electrical stimulation of muscle is that large, fatigable motor units are recruited before smaller units, which is opposite to the normal physiological recruitment pattern. Researchers from Stanford University have circumvented this problem by stimulating muscle optically rather...

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Orderly recruitment of motor units under optical control in vivo

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5839640

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5839640

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1078-8956

E-ISSN

1546-170X

DOI

10.1038/nm.2228

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