Change in the Ipsilateral Motor Cortex Excitability Is Independent from a Muscle Contraction Phase during Unilateral Repetitive Isometric Contractions

Kazumasa Uehara; Takuya Morishita; Shinji Kubota; Kozo Funase

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055083

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Change in the Ipsilateral Motor Cortex Excitability Is Independent from a Muscle Contraction Phase during Unilateral Repetitive Isometric Contractions

Kazumasa Uehara,

Affiliations Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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Takuya Morishita,

Affiliations Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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Shinji Kubota,

Affiliation Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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Kozo Funase

* E-mail: funase@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
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Change in the Ipsilateral Motor Cortex Excitability Is Independent from a Muscle Contraction Phase during Unilateral Repetitive Isometric Contractions

Kazumasa Uehara,
Takuya Morishita,
Shinji Kubota,
Kozo Funase

Published: January 31, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055083

About the Authors

Kazumasa Uehara

Affiliations Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Takuya Morishita

Shinji Kubota

Affiliation Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Kozo Funase

* E-mail: funase@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Human Motor Control Laboratory, Division of Human Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KU TM KF. Performed the experiments: KU TM SK KF. Analyzed the data: KU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UK TM SK. Wrote the paper: UK KF.

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