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  • Activation patterns  (1)
  • Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy  (1)
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Experimental brain research 75 (1989), S. 335-344 
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Neck muscles ; Head stabilization ; Polar plots ; Electromyography ; Activation patterns
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary A musculoskeletal system with more muscles than there are motions could be programmed in alternative ways to produce a single movement. In this case, the muscles would have the potential to be maximally responsive in multiple directions rather than responding preferentially in a single direction. To determine the response patterns of muscles in the head-neck motor system, the simultaneous activation of four of the 23 neck muscles acting on the head was recorded with both surface and intramuscular electrodes. Fifteen human subjects were tested during an isometric head stabilization task. When the EMG response patterns were plotted, each muscle demonstrated a preferred direction of activation. This preferred activation direction was consistent in all of the subjects for three of the muscles tested. The fourth muscle, splenius, was preferentially activated during neck flexion in half of the subjects and during neck extension in the other half. Increasing the force parameters of the task suggested a linear relationship between force and the EMG output in the preferred response directions. Responses in the nonpreferred directions were produced by a nonlinear change in EMG activation of the muscle. This finding could have implications for theories of how reciprocal activation and cocontraction patterns of response are elicited. Results from this study, that the CNS programs neck muscles to respond in specific orientations rather than generating an infinite variety of muscle patterns, are in agreement with our findings in the cat.
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    Electronic Resource
    New York, NY : Wiley-Blackwell
    Biomedical Chromatography 9 (1995), S. 226-228 
    ISSN: 0269-3879
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: A steroeselective method, involving a single liquid-liquid extraction step, was developed and validated for the analysis of nadolol in human plasma. The assay involved extraction of nadolol and desmethyl-nadolol as internal standard (IS) from alkalinized plasma into dichloromethane. The organic solvent was separated and evaporated under nitrogen at 40°C. A chiral derivatization scheme with (R)-(-)-napthylethylisocyanate (50 μL of 0.1% solution in dichloromethane for 60 min) was employed to convert the enantiomers of nadolol into the corresponding diastereomeric derivatives. The residue was reconstitutd in the mobile phase and injected onto a C-18 column. The mobile phase was a mixture of methanol: tetrahdrofuran: water (52:7:41 by vol) containing about 0.001% v/v of both phosphoric acid and tetramethylethylenediamine. Fluorimetric detection was performed at excitation 230 and emission 330 nm. The assay was specific for the enantiomers of nadolol and the lower limit of quantitation was 2 ng/mL for of the enantiomers. Analysis of quality control samples resulted in precision estimates of 7% RSD for inter-assay and 10.1% RSD for intra-assay and the predicted concentrations deviated less than 9.4% of the nominal values for the four enantiomers. The extraction recoveries of the individual enantiomer was about 70%. Stability of nadolol enantiomers were established for four freeze/thaw cycle periods and in the autosampler at 5°C for at least 116 h.
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