Corticospinal transmission to leg motoneurones in human subjects with deficient glycinergic inhibition

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 544, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 631-640

  Nielsen, J B ^a   Tijssen, M A J ^b   Hansen, N L ^a   Crone, C ^c   Petersen, N T ^a   Brown, P ^d   Van Dijk, J G ^e   Rothwell, J C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECORDING; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; STARTLE EPILEPSY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; CORTICOSPINAL TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLYCINERGIC INHIBITION; LEG; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; VOLUNTARY DORSIFLEXION;

EID: 0037107392     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.22.024091     Document Type: Article

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