Recovery of excitability of cutaneous afferents in the median and sural nerves following activity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 763-770

  Lin, Cindy S Y ^a   Mogyoros, Ilona ^a   Burke, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cutaneous afferents; Excitability; Polyneuropathy; Slow K+ conductance; Threshold tracking

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AXONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREARM; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SURAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034020893     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200005)23:5<763::AID-MUS14>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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