Publications

Invited Reviews (since 2016)

Paris, M.T., McNeil, C.J., Power, G.A., Rice, C.L., and Dalton, B.H. 2022 Age-related performance fatigability: a comprehensive review of dynamic tasks. J. Appl. Physiol. 10.1152/japplphysiol.00319.2022

Ruggiero L, Harrison S.W.D., Rice CL, and McNeil CJ. 2022 Neuromuscular fatigability at high altitude: Lowlanders with acute and chronic exposure, and native highlanders. Acta Physiol (Oxf). 234(4):e13788. doi: 10.1111/apha.13788

Allen, M.D., Dalton, B.H., Gilmore, K.J., McNeil, C.J., Doherty, T.J., Rice, C.L. and Power, G.A. 2021 Neuroprotective effects of exercise on the aging human neuromuscular system. Exp. Gerontol. 152:111465. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2021.111465

McNeil, C.J., and Rice, C.L. 2018 Neuromuscular adaptations in healthy ageing. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 43(11):1158-1165. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2018-0327

Kruger, R.L., Aboodarda, S.J., Samozino, P., Rice, C.L., and Millet, G.Y. 2018 Isometric versus dynamic measurements of fatigue: Does age matter? A meta-analysis. Med.Sci .Sports & Ex. 50(10):2132-2144. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001666

McKinnon, N.B., Connelly, D.M., Rice, C.L. Hunter, S.W., and Doherty, T.J. 2017 Neuromuscular contributions to the age-related reduction in muscle power: Mechanisms and potential role of high velocity power training. Ageing Res. Reviews 35:147-154. doi: 10.1016/j.arr.2016.09.003

Allen, M.D., Doherty, T.J., Rice, C.L. and Kimpinski, K. 2016 Physiology in medicine: Neuromuscular consequences of diabetic neuropathy. Invited Review J. Appl. Physiol. 121(1):1-6. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00733.2015

Taylor, J.L., Amann, M., Duchateau, J., Meeusen, R., and Rice, C.L. 2016 Neural contributions to muscle fatigue: from the brain to the muscle and back again. Med Sci Sports & Ex. 48(11):2294-2306. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000923

Hepple, R.T. and Rice, C.L. 2016 Invited Topical Review: Innervation and neuromuscular control in ageing skeletal muscle. J. Physiol. 594.8: 1965-1978. doi: 10.1113/JP270561

Papers (since 2021) PubMed

Zero, A.M., and Rice, C.L. 2025 Without visual feedback voluntary torque is overestimated during muscle potentiation despite similar moto unit firing rate and perception of exertion. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi: 10.1152/jn.00450.2024

Fanous, J., and Rice, C.L. 2025 Flexor hallucis longus and tibialis anterior: A synergistic relationship. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2024.102966

Dudani, R.D., Zero, A.M., and Rice, C.L. 2025 'Muscular wisdom' revisited: Decaying rates of stimulation mitigate torque loss. Experimental Physiology. doi: 10.1113/EP092472

Zero, A.M., Rice, C.L., and Nogueira, L. 2024 Competing effects of activation history on force and cytosolic Ca2+ in intact single mice myofibers. Pflügers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1007/s00424-024-3061-5

Zero, A.M., and Rice, C.L. 2024 Inducing post-activation potentiation alters human motor unit behavior of the elbow extensors during unconstrained velocity contractions. J. Neurophysiol. 132(6):1704-1716 doi: 10.1152/jn.00274.2024

Basile, D.C., Paris, M.T., McNeil, C.J., and Rice, C.L. 2024 Investigating premotor corticospinal excitability in fast and slow voluntary contractions of the elbow flexors. J. Neurophysiol. 132(6): 1670-1679 doi: 10.1152/jn.00330.2024

Paris, M.T., Zero, A.M., and Rice CL. 2024 Influence of stimulation frequency on early and late phase rate of torque and velocity development. J. Appl. Physiol. 1;137(2):349-356. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00076.2024.

Zero, A.M., Paris, M.T., and Rice, C.L. 2024 Differential effects of stimulation frequency on isometric and concentric isotonic contractile function in human quadriceps. J. Appl. Physiol. 1;137(1):111-124. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00075.2024.

Paris, M.T., and Rice, C.L. 2024 Voluntary activation of human knee extensors during isotonic shortening contractions. Eur. J. Appl. Physiol. 124(7):2171-2181. doi: 10.1007/s00421-024-05441-2.

Zero, A.M., Fanous, J., and Rice, C.L. 2024 Acute and prolonged competing effects of activation history on human motor unit firing rates during contractile impairment and recovery. J. Physiol. 601(24):5689-5703. doi: 10.1113/JP285189.

Paish, A.D., Zero, A.M., McNeil, C.J., and Rice, C.L. 2023 Increased corticospinal inhibition following brief maximal and submaximal contractions in humans. J. Appl. Physiol 135(4):805-811. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00206.2023

Paris, M.T., Kulkarni, S.V., and Rice, C.L. 2023 Electrically evoked isotonic plantar flexion contractions are impaired less than voluntary following a dynamic fatiguing task. Med. Sci. Sports. & Ex. 55(11):2096-2102. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003243

Zero, A.M., Kirk, E.A., Gilmore, K.G., and Rice, C.L. 2023 Motor unit firing rates in young and very old adult males during an isokinetic fatiguing task and short-term recovery in the anconeus muscle. J. Neurophysiol 130(1):179-188. doi: 10.1152/jn.00481.2022

Kulkarni, S.V., Paris, M.T., and Rice, C.L. 2023 Calcaneal tendon stiffness is not associated with dynamic time-dependent contractile output. Appl. Physiol. Nutr. & Metabol. 48(4):331-339. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2022-0436

Paris, M.T., Zero, A.M., and Rice, C.L. 2023 Test-retest repeatability of electrically-evoked isotonic power and isometric torque in the plantar flexors. Appl. Physiol. Nutr. & Metabol. 48(1):91-95. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2022-0348.

Paris, M.T. and Rice, C.L. 2023 Comparison of prolonged low-frequency force depression assessed using isometric torque and isotonic power following a dynamic fatiguing task Eur. J. Appl. Physiol. 22(12):2597-2606 doi: 10.1007/s00421-022-05042-x.

Fanous, J., Zero, A.M. and Rice, C.L. 2022 Muscle fatigability and post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: A case study. Physiol. Reports 10(16):e15391. doi: 10.14814/phy2.15391.

Zero, A.M., Paris, M.T., and Rice, C.L. 2022 Frequency-dependent coexistence of muscle fatigue and potentiation assessed by concentric isotonic contractions in human plantar flexors. J. Appl. Physiol. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00214

Kirk, E.A., Castellani, C.A., Doherty, T.J., Rice, C.L., and Singh, S.M. 2022 Local and systemic transcriptomic responses from acute exercise induced muscle damage of the human knee extensors. Physiological Genomics54(8):305-315. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00146

Zero, A.M., Kirk, E.A. and Rice, C.L. 2022 Firing rate trajectories of human motor units during activity-dependent muscle potentiation. J. Appl. Physiol. 132(2):402-412. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00672.2021

Fanous, J., Zero, A.M., Gilmore, K.J., Doherty, T.J and Rice, C.L .2021 Length-dependent changes of lower limb muscle morphology in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy assessed with magnetic resonance imaging. Eur J. Trans. Myology 18;31(4):10200. doi: 10.4081/ejtm.2021.10200

Kirk, E.A., Zero, A.M. and Rice, C.L. 2021 Firing rate trajectories of human occipitofrontalis motor units in response to triangular voluntary contraction intensity. Exp. Brain Res. 239 (12); 3661-3670. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06238-x.

Zero, A.M. and Rice, C.L. 2021 Post-activation potentiation induced by concentric contractions at three speeds in humans. Exp. Physiol. 106(12):2489-2501. doi: 10.1113/EP089613.

Kirk, E.A., Gilmore, K.J. and Rice, C.L. 2021 Anconeus motor unit firing rates during isometric and muscle-shortening contractions comparing young and very old adults. J. Neurophysiol. 126(4):1122-1136. doi: 10.1152/jn.00219.2021.

Zero, A.M., Kirk, E.A., Hali, K. and Rice, C.L. 2021 Firing rate trajectories of human motor units during isometric ramp contractions to 10, 25 and 50% of maximal voluntary contraction. Neurosci. Lett. 762:136118. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.136118.

Kirk, E.A. and Rice, C.L. 2021 The relationship of agonist muscle single motor unit firing rates and elbow extension limb movement kinematics. Exp. Brain Res. 239(9):2755-2766. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06168-8

Kirk, E.A., Christie, A.D., Knight, C.A. and Rice, C.L. 2021 Motor unit firing rates during constant isometric contraction: establishing and comparing an age-related pattern among muscles. J. Appl. Physiol. 130(6):1903-1914. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01047.2020

Hali, K., Zero, A.M., and Rice, C.L. 2021 Effect of ankle joint position on triceps surae contractile properties and motor unit discharge rates. Physiol Reports Jan;8(24):e14680. doi: 10.14814/phy2.14680.

Arbuckle, S., Weiler, J. Kirk, E.A., Rice, C.L. Schieber, M., Pruszynski, A.J., Naveed Ejaz, and Diedrichsen, J. 2020 Structure of population activity in primary motor cortex for single finger flexion and extension. J. Neurosci. 40(48):9210-9223. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0999-20.2020

Smith, C.B., Allen, M.D., and Rice, C.L. 2020 Coexistence of peripheral potentiation and corticospinal inhibition following a conditioning contraction in human first dorsal interosseous muscle. J. Appl. Physiol. 129(4):926-931. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00238.2020

Moore, C.W., Fanous, J., and Rice, C.L. 2021 Fiber type composition of contiguous palmaris longus and abductor pollicis brevis muscles: morphological evidence of a functional synergy J. Anat. 53-62. doi: 10.1111/joa.13289.

Copithorne, D.B., Hali, K., and Rice, C.L. 2021 The effect of blood flow on tibialis anterior motor unit firing rates during sustained low-intensity isometric contractions. Appl. Physiol. Nut. & Metab. 63-68. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2020-0437

Abstracts and Conference Presentations (since 2021)

~25 - mainly student presented and published - at various national and international meetings including:

  • Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP)
  • American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
  • Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
  • American Physiological Society (APS)
  • American Association of Anatomists (AAA)
  • The International Society of Electrophysiology & Kinesiology (ISEK)
  • Exercise Neuroscience Group (ENG)
  • International MotoNeuron Society (IMS)
  • Motor Impairment Conference (MI)

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