Age-related changes in fastest and slowest conducting axons of thenar motor units

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1022-1029

  Wang, François Charles ^a   De Pasqua, Victor ^a   Delwaide, Paul J ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity (CV); Motor unit number estimate (MUNE); Single motor unit F wave (FMUP); Surface recorded motor unit action potential (S MUAP); Thenar muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE REGENERATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENSHAW CELL; THENAR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXONS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 0032775902     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199908)22:8<1022::AID-MUS3>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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