Repetitive impulse firing in motoneurons: Facts and perspectives

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue , 1999, Pages 31-37

  Kernell, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033397589     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)62841-1     Document Type: Article

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