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J Appl Physiol 74: 2718-2723, 1993;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 74, Issue 6 2718-2723, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Change in recruitment order of motor units in human parasternal intercostal muscles with sleep state

W. A. Whitelaw, K. P. Rimmer and H. S. Sun
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Recruitment order of individual motor units in the early part of inspiration in parasternal intercostal muscles was observed in normal human subjects during wakefulness and non-rapid-eye-movement sleep. Electromyograms from bipolar fine wire intramuscular electrodes were recorded while the subjects lay supine in a sleep laboratory, and sleep stage was determined by polysomnography. From wakefulness to sleep there were numerous examples of shifts in order of recruitment among the low threshold units of early inspiration. There were corresponding shifts in the order of derecruitment of these units. Analysis of frequency of firing of units also suggested that the levels of excitatory input to one unit of a pair could be altered relative to the level of input of the other one. The data imply that there are at least minor differences in distribution of excitatory inputs from various sources among motoneurons of this muscle pool.


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