Repetitive CMAPs: Mechanisms of neural and synaptic genesis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1127-1133

  Van Dijk, J Gert ^a   Lammers, Gert Jan ^a   Wintzen, Axel R ^a   Molenaar, Peter C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AChE inhibitors; antidromic activity; congenital myasthenia; double discharge; myasthenia; organophosphate poisoning; repetitive CMAPs; repetitive stimulation; slow channel syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MYASTHENIA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLES; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOTONIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029790964     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199609)19:9<1127::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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