• Muscle & nerve · Aug 1996

    Effect of fatiguing maximal voluntary contraction on excitatory and inhibitory responses elicited by transcranial magnetic motor cortex stimulation.

    • W B McKay, D S Stokic, A M Sherwood, G Vrbova, and M R Dimitrijevic.
    • Baylor College of Medicine, Division of Restorative Neurology and Human Neurobiology, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
    • Muscle Nerve. 1996 Aug 1;19(8):1017-24.

    AbstractVertex transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) elicited tibialis anterior motor evoked potentials (MEPs) and silent periods (SPs) that were recorded during and following isometric maximal volitional contraction (MVC). During MVC in 6 healthy subjects, MEP amplitudes in the exercised muscle showed an increasing trend from an initial value of 4539 +/- 809 muV (mean +/- SE) to 550 +/- 908 muV (P < 0.13) while force and EMG decreased (P < 0.01). Also, SP duration increased from 165 +/- 37 ms to 231 +/- 32 ms (P < 0.01). Thus, during a fatiguing MVC both excitatory and inhibitory TMS-induced responses increased. TMS delivered during repeated brief 10% MVC contractions before and after a fatiguing MVC in 5 subjects, showed no change in MEP amplitude but SP duration was prolonged after MVC. This SP prolongation was focal to the exercised muscle. Silent periods recorded after pyramidal tract stimulation were unchanged following the MVC. These results suggest that MEP and SP might have common sources of facilitation during an MVC and that inhibitory mechanisms remain focally augmented following a fatiguing MVC.

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