Motor units in cat soleus muscle: physiological, histochemical and morphological characteristics
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 238 (3), 503-514
- https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1974.sp010540
Abstract
1. Physiological properties of motor units in the soleus muscle were studied in anaesthetized cats using intracellular stimulation of motoneurones to ensure functional isolation of single units. The muscle fibres belonging to 6 units were identified by glycogen depletion following prolonged stimulation, permitting analysis of their histochemical profiles and anatomical organization.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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