Human muscle fatigue : physiological mechanisms.

London : Pitman Medical, 1981.

x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"Symposium on Human Muscle Fatigue: Physiological Mechanisms, held at the Ciba Foundation, London 9-11 September 1980. Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Julie Whelan."--At head of table of contents.

Human muscle function and fatigue / R.H.T. Edwards -- Glycolytic and oxidative energy metabolism and contraction characteristics of intact human muscle / Eric Hultman, Hans Sjöholm, Kent Sahlin, Lars Edström -- Muscle fibre recruitment and metabolism in prolonged exhaustive dynamic exercise / Bengt Saltin -- Relevance of muscle fibre type to fatigue in short intense and prolonged exercise in man / Jan Karlsson, Bertil Sjödin, Ira Jacobs, Peter Kaiser -- Effect of metabolic changes on force generation in skeletal muscle during maximal exercise / Lars Hermansen -- The glucose/fatty acid cycle and physical exhaustion / E.A. Newsholme -- Shortage of chemical fuel as a cause of fatigue : studies by nuclear magnetic resonance and bicycle ergometry / Douglas Wilkie -- Indirect and direct stimulation of fatigued human muscle / P.A. Merton, D.K. Hill, H.B. Morton -- EMG and fatigue of human voluntary and stimulated contractions / B. Bigland-Ritchie -- Firing properties of single human motor units on maintained maximal voluntary effort / Lennart Grimby, Jan Hannerz, Jörgen Borg, Björn Hedman -- Muscle fatigue due to changes beyond the neuromuscular junction / D.A. Jones -- Contractile function and fatigue of the respiratory muscles in man / J. Moxham, C.M. Wiles, D. Newham, R.H.T. Edwards -- Neural drive and electromechanical alterations in the fatiguing diaphragm / C. Roussos, M. Aubier -- The tremor in fatigue / Olof Lippold -- The pathophysiology of inspiratory muscle fatigue / Peter T. Macklem, Carol Cohen, G. Zagelbaum, C. Roussos -- Fatigue in human metabolic myopathy / C.M. Wiles, D.A. Jones, R.H.T. Edwards.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.