Quantitative motor unit action potential analysis of skeletal muscles in the Warmblood horse

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 556-561

  Wijnberg, I D ^a   Franssen, H ^b   Van Der Kolk, J H ^a   Breukink, H J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMG; Horse; Mup analysis; Skeletal muscles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HORSE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0036718776     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516402776180269     Document Type: Article

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