Running Head: ESTIMATING PIC IN HUMAN MOTOR NEURONS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 An evaluation of paired motor unit estimates of persistent inward current in human motor 9 neurons 10 11 12 Michael S. Vandenberk, Jayne M. Kalmar 13 14 15 16 Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Wilfrid Laurier University 17 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 18 19 20 Please address correspondence to: 21 22 Jayne M. Kalmar 23 Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education 24 Wilfrid Laurier University 25 75 University Avenue W, Bricker Academic, Room 501 26 Waterloo, ON, CA 27 [email protected] 28 Phone: +1 (519) 884-0710 29 Fax: +1 (519) 747-4594 30 31 32 Michael Vandenberk: experimental design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of 33 results, writing of manuscript 34 35 Jayne Kalmar: conception and design of project, interpretation of results, edited and revised 36 manuscript 37 38 39 The authors declare no competing financial interests. 40 41 42 This research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 43 (NSERC Discovery Grant 386601 to J. Kalmar) 44 45 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (February 12, 2014). doi:10.1152/jn.00469.2013