Sympathetic skin responses of the hand in normal subjects: Shorter latency at distal phalanx

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-170

  Kanzato, Naomi ^a   Komine, Yukihiro ^a   Fukiyama, Koshiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

conduction; digital nerve blocking; distal phalanx; normal subject; sympathetic skin response (SSR)

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX;

EID: 0030942714     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)95186-9     Document Type: Article

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