Jan Celichowski
Department of Neurobiology
Poznań University of Physical Education
Education and scientific degree:
1983 MSc Poznan University of Life Sciences
1989 PhD degree, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
1996 habilitation, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
2001 professorship in neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
Employment History:
1982 - Department of Neurobiology, Poznan University of Physical Education, Department of Neurobiology
since 2000 - Head of the Department of Neurobiology
Scientific stays:
Laboratory of Movement Control, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St Petersburg (Russia)
Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, College de France, Paris (France)
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Spinal Cord Research Center, University of Manitoba, Canada
Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Scientific Societies:
International Brain Research Organization
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Polish Neuroscience Society (president, 2017-2019)
Polish Physiological Society
Research Interests:
Neurophysiology, Motor Control, Motor units, Muscle receptors
Present research activity:
Plasticity of motor unit contractile properties and electrophysiological properties of motoneurons, neuronal mechanisms of force regulation in skeletal muscles, mechanomyographic signals generated by contracting motor units, muscle receptors
Relationship between the tension-time area and the frequency of stimulation in motor units of the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle.
Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society Jun, 2000 | Pubmed ID: 10898101
The influence of increasing and decreasing frequency of stimulation on the contraction of motor units in rat medial gastrocnemius muscle.
Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society Dec, 2000 | Pubmed ID: 11220493
Tetanic depression: a phenomenon influencing the production of tension in fast-twitch motor units in rat medial gastrocnemius.
Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis , 2001 | Pubmed ID: 11512409
Mechanomyographic signals generated during unfused tetani of single motor units in the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle.
European journal of applied physiology Oct, 2001 | Pubmed ID: 11718278
The time course of the last contractions during incompletely fused tetani of motor units in rat skeletal muscle.
Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis , 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12004573
Tetanic depression in fast motor units of the cat gastrocnemius muscle.
Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society Jun, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15213353
Analysis of the unfused tetanus course in fast motor units of the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle.
Archives italiennes de biologie Feb, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15844668
Monophasic and biphasic relaxation during motor unit tetanic contractions of variable fusion degree.
Archives italiennes de biologie May, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16642788
Changes in contractile properties of motor units of the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle after spinal cord transection.
Experimental physiology Sep, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16728457
Changes in the time course of potentiated and fatigued contractions of fast motor units in rat muscle.
Archives italiennes de biologie Aug, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16977831
Time-related changes of motor unit properties in the rat medial gastrocnemius muscle after the spinal cord injury. II. Effects of a spinal cord hemisection.
Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology Jun, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19679495
The tetanic depression in fast motor units of mammalian skeletal muscle can be evoked by lengthening of one initial interpulse interval.
Experimental brain research Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21800254
The contractile properties of the medial gastrocnemius motor units innervated by L4 and L5 spinal nerves in the rat.
Somatosensory & motor research , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21846299
Dynamic changes of twitchlike responses to successive stimuli studied by decomposition of motor unit tetanic contractions in rat medial gastrocnemius.
Journal of neurophysiology Dec, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 25253476
Role of histidyl dipeptides in contractile function of fast and slow motor units in rat skeletal muscle.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 07, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27197862
Contractile properties of motor units and expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms in rat fast-type muscle after volitional weight-lifting training.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 10, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27539495
Morphometric properties and innervation of muscle compartments in rat medial gastrocnemius.
Somatosensory & motor research Sep - Dec, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27855526
Adaptations of motoneuron properties after weight-lifting training in rats.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) Sep, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28596267
Adaptation of motor unit contractile properties in rat medial gastrocnemius to treadmill endurance training: Relationship to muscle mitochondrial biogenesis.
PloS one , 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29672614
The differences in the structure of the motor nucleus of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in male and female rats.
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft Jan, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30240908
Transitory force decrease following a sudden reduction in stimulation frequency in motor units of rat medial gastrocnemius.
Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology Jun, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30878001
Initial force production before sag is enhanced by prior contraction followed by a 3-minute rest period in fast motor units of the rat medial gastrocnemius.
Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology Aug, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32505088
Biomechanical conditioning of the motor unit transitory force decrease following a reduction in stimulation rate.
BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation , 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33005427
Contractile history affects sag and boost properties of unfused tetanic contractions in human quadriceps muscles.
European journal of applied physiology Nov, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33221935
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