Repetitive nerve stimulation: Effects of recording site and the nature of 'pseudofacilitation'

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1411-1419

  Van Dijk, J Gert ^a   Van Der Hoeven, Bastiaan J ^a   Van Der Hoeven, Han ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compound muscle action potential; Muscle fiber conduction velocity; Pseudofacilitation; Recording site; Repetitive nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; ULNAR NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0034255682     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00331-X     Document Type: Article

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