Effect of maturation on nerve excitability in an experimental model of threshold electrotonus

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 498-506

  Yang, Qing ^a   Kaji, Ryuji ^a   Hirota, Nobuyuki ^a   Kojima, Yasuhiro ^a   Takagi, Tsunekazu ^a   Kohara, Nobuo ^a   Kimura, Jun ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Conduction velocity; Excitability; Input impedance; Maturation; Potassium channel; Threshold electrotonus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CESIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MYELINATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0034122933     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200004)23:4<498::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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