Temperature dependence of excitability indices of human cutaneous afferents

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Burke, David ^a   Mogyoros, Ilona ^a   Vagg, Rebecca ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Excitability; Refractoriness; Temperature; Time constant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; COLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0032888934     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199901)22:1<51::AID-MUS9>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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