Classification, oscillatory and alternating oscillatory firing of α1 (FF) and α2 -motoneurons (FR) in patients with spinal cord lesion

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 5-56

  Schalow, G ^a   Bersch, U ^a   Zach G A ^a   Warzok, R ^b  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREBRAL PALSY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; OSCILLOMETRY; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL ROOT; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CEREBRAL PALSY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OSCILLOMETRY; PARAPLEGIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME FACTORS;

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