Background: Electromyography (EMG) signal processing and Muscle Onset Latency (MOL) are widely used in rehabilitation sciences and nerve conduction studies. The majority of existing software packages provided for estimating MOL via analyzing EMG signal are computerized, desktop based and not portable; therefore, experiments and signal analyzes using them should be completed locally. Moreover, a...

objective:  unaccustomed and intense eccentric exercise is a common cause of delayed-onset muscle soreness (doms). there are multiple remedies for the treatment of doms, but its clinical and laboratory pieces of evidence are scarce. currently, the treatments proposed for doms are numerous and include pharmaceuticals, herbal remedies, stretching, massage, nutritional supplements, and other alter...

background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

background: h-reflex is a valuable electrophysiological technique for assessing nerve conduction through entire length of afferent and efferent pathways, especially nerve roots and proximal segments of peripheral nerves. the aim of this study was to investigate the relation between normal values of flexor carpi radialis (fcr) h-reflex latency, upper limb length and age in normal subjects, and t...

background: h-reflex is a valuable electrophysiological technique for assessing nerve conduction through entire length of afferent and efferent pathways, especially nerve roots and proximal segments of peripheral nerves. the aim of this study was to investigate the relation between normal values of flexor carpi radialis (fcr) h-reflex latency, upper limb length and age in normal subjects, and t...

inflammation and pain induced by delayed onset muscle soreness (doms) can be induced by eccentric exercise or an unaccustomed activity. the condition can causes problems in exercising and for athletes. the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of 150mg curcumin supplementation immediately after intensive eccentric exercise. evaluations were made for total antioxidant capacity (tac), mu...

Stimulus response latency is the delay between stimulus onset and the evoked modulation in neural activity. A common technique to estimate latencies involves binning the spike arrival times to form a peri-stimulus histogram. This histogram is smoothed using a fixed bandwidth. The estimated latency is the first time following stimulus onset in which the smoothed histogram exceeds the midpoint be...

Acetylcholine or carbachol were applied iontophoretically to longitudinal smooth muscle from taenia or ileum of guinea pigs by means of a micropipette, while the membrane potential was recorded intracellularly by microelectrode. Contraction of the muscle was prevented by hyperpolarizing the membrane with inward current in a double-sucrose gap apparatus or, occasionally, by the use of a bathing ...

Stimulus response latency is the delay in the onset of stimulus-evoked neuronal activity. We develop maximum likelihood and least squares estimators of stimulus response latency and present a comparison of the performance of these methods with estimators commonly used in the neuroscience literature. The formal statistical change-point estimation problem is nontrivial due to the inclusion of a '...

background: n-acetylcysteine (nac) has been indicated against experimental seizures, but with relatively inconclusive results. this study was undertaken to evaluate whether nac exerts a dose-dependent anticonvulsant effect and to determine nac safe therapeutic dose range and its muscle-relaxant activity in both acute and chronic uses. methods: following intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of ...