Functional properties of motor units in motor neuron diseases and neuropathies

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 328-332

  Vogt, Th ^a   Nix, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALS; macro EMG; motor unit; spinal muscular atrophy; twitch force

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MUSCLE TWITCH; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 0030847994     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)00028-3     Document Type: Article

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