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Age-related changes in the activity of the human motor system

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By analysis of parameters of isometric force recorded in healthy subjects from different age groups, amplitude and frequency changes in the integrated activity of motor system structures were shown to depend on voluntarily maintained isometric effort and its duration.

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    S. P. Romanov

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Original Russian Text © S.P. Romanov, Z.A. Aleksanyan, E.B. Lyskov, 2007, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 82–94.

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Romanov, S.P., Aleksanyan, Z.A. & Lyskov, E.B. Age-related changes in the activity of the human motor system. Hum Physiol 33, 455–466 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119707040123

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