Global and detailed features of motor unit potential in myogenic and neurogenic disorders

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 1999, Pages 421-429

  Zalewska, Ewa ^a   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, Irena ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Detailed features; Global features; Irregular potential; Motor unit action potential; Myogenic; Neurogenic

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032700596     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(99)00065-X     Document Type: Article

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