Motor unit involvement in spastic paresis. Relationship between leg muscle activation and histochemistry

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 89-103

  Dietz, V ^a   Ketelsen, U P ^a   Berger, W ^a   Quintern, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMG activity; Man; Motoneurone discharge behaviour; Muscle fibre transformation; Spastic gait pattern; Spastic muscle histochemistry morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ETIOLOGY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARESIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLES; REFLEX, STRETCH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0022528863     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-510X(86)90052-3     Document Type: Article

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