Comparison of peripheral Ia and corticomotoneuronal composite EPSPs in human motoneurons

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 431-437

  Jones, Kelvin E ^a,b   Calancie, Blair ^c   Hall, Anthony ^c   Bawa, Parveen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory postsynaptic potentials; Ia afferent; Motoneuron

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNERVATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MOTONEURON; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030273152     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0924-980X(96)95178-4     Document Type: Article

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