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J Appl Physiol 66: 2606-2610, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 6 2606-2610, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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M wave potentiation during and after muscle activity

A. Hicks, J. Fenton, S. Garner and A. J. McComas
Department of Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The M wave (muscle compound action potential) has been shown to enlarge between successive 3-s voluntary contractions of the human thenar and extensor digitorum brevis (EDB) muscles. The changes, which affected both the amplitude and the area of the M wave, were more obvious in the thenar than in the EDB muscles. In the thenar muscles the mean amplitude was already significantly enlarged after the first voluntary contraction and close to the maximal value by the third (mean maximal increase 23.6 +/- 12.6% of control). The increase in mean M wave area was more gradual, reaching a maximum of 29.3 +/- 14.1% at 100 s. After the voluntary thenar contractions ceased, the amplitude of the M wave subsided more rapidly than the area and had regained the control value within 50 s. The magnitude and time course of the increase in EDB M wave area (maximum change 25.9 +/- 15.2%) were similar to those of the thenar muscles; however, the subsequent decline was slower. The amplitude of the EDB M wave showed the least change, and the maximum increase (11.4 +/- 9.6%) occurred early in the postcontraction period. In both muscles the changes in M wave amplitude and area were significantly different from the control values.


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