Influence of age of horse on results of quantitative electromyographic needle examination of skeletal muscles in Dutch Warmblood horses

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-75

  Wijnberg, Inge D ^a   Franssen, Hessel ^b   van der Kolk, Johannes H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HORSE; INTRAMUSCULAR TEMPERATURE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SEDATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCLAVIAN MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HORSES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037253252     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2003.64.70     Document Type: Article

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