Dissociated small hand muscle involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis detected by motor unit number estimates

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 870-873

  Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Mizobuchi, Keiko ^a   Ogawara, Kazue ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Compound muscle action potential; Glutamute excitotoxicity; Motor unit number estimate; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0032806964     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199907)22:7<870::AID-MUS9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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