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  title info:
    title: Application of Muscle/Nerve Stimulation in Health and Disease
  name:
    name part: Vrbová, Gerta.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hudlicka, Olga.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Centofanti, Kristin Schaefer.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 118 p. online resource.
  abstract: The first evidence that electrical changes can cause muscles to contract was p- vided by Galvani (1791). Galvani’s ideas about ‘animal electricity’ were explored during the 19th and 20th century when it was firmly established that ‘electricity’ is one of the most important mechanisms used for communication by the nervous system and muscle. These researches lead to the development of ever more soph- ticated equipment that could either record the electrical changes in nerves and muscles, or elicit functional changes by electrically stimulating these structures. It was indeed the combination of these two methods that elucidated many of the basic principles about the function of the nervous system. Following these exciting findings, it was discovered that electrical stimulation and the functions elicited by it also lead to long-term changes in the properties of nerves and particularly muscles. Recent findings help us to understand the mec- nisms by which activity induced by electrical stimulation can influence mature, fully differentiated cells, in particular muscles, blood vessels and nerves. Electrically elicited activity determines the properties of muscle fibres by activating a sequence of signalling pathways that change the gene expression of the muscle. Thus, elect- cal activity graduated from a simple mechanism that is used to elicit muscle c- traction, to a system that could induce permanent changes in muscles and modify most of its characteristic properties.
  table of contents: Plasticity of the Mammalian Motor Unit -- Cardiovascular System: Changes with Exercise Training and Muscle Stimulation -- Electrical Stimulation as a Therapeutic Tool to Restore Motor Function -- Electrical Stimulation for Health, Beauty, Fitness, Sports Training and Rehabilitation.
  note: by Gerta Vrbová, Olga Hudlicka, Kristin Schaefer Centofanti.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Rehabilitation
  subject:
    topic: Rehabilitation medicine
  subject:
    topic: Sports medicine
  subject:
    topic: Physiotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Health
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Rehabilitation
  subject:
    topic: Physiotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Rehabilitation Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Sports Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Medicine and Health
  classification: RD792-811
  classification: 617.03
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advances in Muscle Research, 4
  identifier: 9781402082337
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8233-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204142032.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-8233-7