Posttetanic potentiation of human dorsiflexors |
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Authors: | O'Leary Deborah D; Hope Karen; Sale Digby G |
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Abstract: | O'Leary, Deborah D., Karen Hope, and Digby G. Sale.Posttetanic potentiation of human dorsiflexors.J. Appl. Physiol. 83(6):2131-2138, 1997. Twitch contractions of the ankle dorsiflexors were evoked before and after applied 7-s tetanic stimulation at 100 Hzin 20 young adults. Torque decreased 15% during the tetanus. At 5 safter tetanus, twitch peak torque had potentiated 45%. Potentiationdeclined to 28% after 1 min, rose slightly to 33% at 2 min, anddeclined slowly with potentiation still 25% after 5 min. There waslarge intersubject variation in the amount of potentiation(5-140%) and its persistence (5 to 20 min). The muscle compoundaction potential (M wave) did not change significantly (from pretetanicvalue) at 5 s after tetanus but increased sharply (26%) at 2 min andthen subsided. Twitch half relaxation time (23%) decreasedsignificantly more than twitch rise time (13%) 5 s after tetanus andrecovered more slowly. Twitch rates of torque development (75%) andrelaxation (71%) increased similarly 5 s after tetanus and were stillelevated (~25%) at 5 min. The extent of twitch torque potentiationwas significantly inversely correlated with pretetanic twitch rise time(r = 0.69), half relaxation time (r = 0.61), andtwitch-to-tetanus ratio (r = 0.66). The data indicate that posttetanic potentiation has agreater effect on twitch half relaxation time than on time to peaktorque and is more prominent in muscles with a short twitch time courseand small twitch-to-tetanus ratio. |
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