Activity-dependent conduction block in multifocal motor neuropathy

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1602-1611

  Kaji, Ryuji ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^b   Kohara, Nobuo ^a   Murase, Nagako ^a   Kimura, Jun ^a,c   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent conduction block; Fatigue; Membrane hyperpolarization; Multifocal motor neuropathy; Threshold tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE POLARIZATION AND DEPOLARIZATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033940488     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.8.1602     Document Type: Article

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