A method for the study of single jaw adductor muscle motor units in the rat

Archives of Oral Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 607-611

  Druzinsky, Robert E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

jaw adductor muscles; rat; rodents; single motor unit; superficial masseter; trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATORY MUSCLE; MICROELECTRODE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; TENDON; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030159498     PISSN: 00039969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(96)00004-0     Document Type: Article

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