Sensory nerve conduction velocity is inversely related to axonal length

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-63

  Wu, P B J ^a,c,d   Neff, J ^b   Kingery, W S ^c   Date, E S ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal length; Median nerve; Nerve conduction velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNERVATION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; THUMB;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; CADAVER; ELBOW; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; THUMB; WRIST;

EID: 0032955115     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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