Patients with the major and minor form of hyperekplexia differ with regards to disynaptic reciprocal inhibition between ankle flexor and extensor muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 190-197

  Crone, C ^a   Nielsen, J ^b   Petersen, N ^b   Tijssen, M ^d   Van Dijk, J ^c  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hereditary startle disease; Human; Hyperekplexia; Muscle stiffness; Reciprocal inhibition; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUTATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; STARTLE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GLYCINE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPSES; TENDONS;

EID: 0035728365     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210100808     Document Type: Article

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