Clinical evaluation of excitability measures in sensory nerve

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 883-892

  Kiernan, Matthew C ^a   Lin, Cindy S Y ^b   Andersen, Kjeld V ^c   Murray, Nicholas M F ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Excitability; Recovery cycle; Sensory; Stimulus response; Strength duration time constant; Threshold electrotonus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AXONS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURALGIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARASYSTOLE; PARESTHESIA; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034979029     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.1085     Document Type: Article

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