Intracellular contribution to extracellularly recorded waveforms: The 'membrane rent' hypothesis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 166-175

  Dumitru, Daniel ^a   King, John C ^a   Rogers, William E ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Univ H   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Intracellular action potential; Needle electromyography; Single muscle fiber; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0032942590     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(98)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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