Relationship between nerve and muscle fiber conduction velocities of the same motor unit in man

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-67

  Okajima, Yasutomo ^a   Toikawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Hanayama, Kohzoh ^a   Ohtsuka, Tomoyoshi ^a   Kimura, Akio ^a   Chino, Naoichi ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor unit; Muscle fiber conduction velocity; Nerve fiber conduction velocity; Size principle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 0032575586     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00590-4     Document Type: Article

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