Handedness-related asymmetry in transmission in a system of human cervical premotoneurones

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-334

  Marchand Pauvert, V ^a   Mazevet, D ^a   Pierrot Deseilligny, E ^a   Pol, S ^a   Pradat Diehl, P ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Handedness; Human; Spinal premotoneurones; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FACILITATION; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SKIN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLITION; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0033050051     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050688     Document Type: Article

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