A J McComas
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Brown T, Galea V, McComas A
Muscle Nerve
. 1996 Nov;
19(11):1493-5.
PMID: 8874411
No abstract available.
12.
MacIntyre N, McComas A
Neuroreport
. 1996 Jun;
7(9):1513-6.
PMID: 8856710
A simple but effective method has been devised to explore backward masking in cutaneous sensation. In this method a weak electrical shock to the palm (test stimulus) is followed by...
13.
Cupido C, Galea V, McComas A
J Physiol
. 1996 Mar;
491 ( Pt 2):541-50.
PMID: 8866877
1. The effects of repeated excitation on the compound action potential, or M wave, of mammalian muscle fibres have been investigated in the human biceps brachii. 2. During continuous indirect...
14.
Hawrylyshyn T, McComas A, Heddle S
Muscle Nerve
. 1996 Jan;
19(1):103-5.
PMID: 8538657
No abstract available.
15.
McComas A
J Clin Neurophysiol
. 1995 Nov;
12(6):560-4.
PMID: 8600171
Motor unit estimation in human subjects was conceived in 1967 and was first performed on the extensor digitorum brevis muscle, using a technique of incremental motor nerve stimulation. Losses of...
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McComas A
Muscle Nerve
. 1995 Apr;
18(4):369-79.
PMID: 7715621
The history of motor unit number estimation (MUNE) is given, together with brief descriptions of the various methods presently available. A small muscle of the hand contains about 100 motor...
17.
Sjogaard G, McComas A
Adv Exp Med Biol
. 1995 Jan;
384:69-80.
PMID: 8585478
Interstitial potassium concentration, [K+], is modulated during muscle activity due to a number of different mechanisms: diffusion and active transport of K+ in combination with water fluxes. The relative significance...
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Gandevia S, Enoka R, McComas A, Stuart D, Thomas C
Adv Exp Med Biol
. 1995 Jan;
384:515-25.
PMID: 8585476
Throughout this epilogue, we have emphasized that rapid advances in understanding of neural and muscular aspects of fatigue have occurred since the 1980 London Symposium. However, in each instance of...
19.
McComas A, Miller R, Gandevia S
Adv Exp Med Biol
. 1995 Jan;
384:495-512.
PMID: 8585475
Increased fatigability necessarily occurs in every patient with muscle weakness, regardless of whether the latter is due to a central or peripheral neurological disorder. The tendency for disuse to increase...
20.
Thomas C, Enoka R, Gandevia S, McComas A, Stuart D
Adv Exp Med Biol
. 1995 Jan;
384:11-25.
PMID: 8585444
Brenda Bigland-Ritchie has made seminal contributions to our understanding of skeletal muscle physiology--the energy cost of muscle when it shortens or is forcibly stretched, the relationship between EMG and force,...