Incidence of F waves in single human thenar motor units

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 77-82

  Thomas, Christine K ^a,c   Johansson, Roland S ^a   Bigland Ritchie, Brenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

F waves; Median nerve; Motoneuron excitability; Motor unit force; Proximal conduction velocity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR; WAVEFORM;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; THUMB;

EID: 0036135931     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10005     Document Type: Article

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