Neurobiology of Muscle Fatigue

In reading this volume one should ask what is new and true, and what will lead to new approaches and insight. Clearly, as the topic muscle fatigue is increasingly studied by muscle physiologists, neuroscientists and clinicians, it becomes more difficult to summarize the state of knowledge, even in a volume with 36 chapters. Since a major symposium on the physiology of muscle fatigue in London in 1980 (Porter & Whelan, 1981), much progress has …