Excitability changes in human sensory and motor axons during hyperventilation and ischaemia

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 317-325

  Mogyoros, Ilona ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a   Burke, David ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excitability; Hyperventilation; Ischaemia; Refractoriness; Sodium channels; Supernormality

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TWITCH; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0031030373     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.2.317     Document Type: Article

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