Axonal hyperpolarization associated with acute hypokalemia: Multiple excitability measurements as indicators of the membrane potential of human axons

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 283-287

  Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Kanai, Kazuaki ^a   Sung, Jia Ying ^a   Ogawara, Kazue ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Burke, David ^b   Bostock, Hugh ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hypokalemia; Membrane potential; Multiple excitability measurements; Refractory period; Superexcitability; Threshold of electrotonus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0036339415     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10169     Document Type: Article

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