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PURPOSE:Current methods for estimating muscle motor unit (MU) number provide values which are remarkably similar for muscles of widely differing size, probably because surface electrodes sample from similar and relatively small volumes in each muscle. We have evaluated an alternative means of estimating MU number that takes into account differences in muscle size. METHODS:Intramuscular motor unit potentials (MUPs) were recorded and muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) was measured using MRI to provide a motor unit number estimate (iMUNE). This was compared to the traditional MUNE method, using compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) and surface motor unit potentials (sMUPs) recorded using surface electrodes. Data were collected from proximal and distal regions of the vastus lateralis (VL) in young and old men while test-retest reliability was evaluated with VL, tibialis anterior and biceps brachii. RESULTS:MUPs, sMUPs and CMAPs were highly reliable (r = 0.84-0.91). The traditional MUNE, based on surface recordings, did not differ between proximal and distal sites of the VL despite the proximal CSA being twice the distal CSA. iMUNE, however, gave values that differed between young and old and were proportional to the muscle size. CONCLUSION:When evaluating the contribution that MU loss makes to muscle atrophy, such as in disease or ageing, it is important to have a method such as iMUNE, which takes into account any differences in total muscle size.
journal_name
Eur J Appl Physioljournal_title
European journal of applied physiologyauthors
Piasecki M,Ireland A,Piasecki J,Stashuk DW,McPhee JS,Jones DAdoi
10.1007/s00421-018-3811-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-04-01 00:00:00pages
767-775issue
4eissn
1439-6319issn
1439-6327pii
10.1007/s00421-018-3811-5journal_volume
118pub_type
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