Assessment of serum-mediated neurotoxicity in Navajo neuropathy

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 211-214

  Lawlor, M W ^a   Holve, S ^b   Stubbs Jr , E B ^a,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Tuba City Indian Medical Center   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraneural injection; Liver; Navajo; Nerve; Neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER DISEASE; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CHILD; CORNEAL ULCER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIVER DISEASES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURITES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARAPROTEINEMIAS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0033932019     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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