Anatomical and electrophysiological determinants of the human thenar compound muscle action potential

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1457-1468

  Lateva, Zoia C ^a   McGill, Kevin C ^a,b   Burgar, Charles G ^a,b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compound muscle action potential; motor unit action potential; muscle fiber length; thenar muscles; volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPOLARIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THENAR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; THUMB;

EID: 0029797096     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199611)19:11<1457::AID-MUS10>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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