Counting motor units in chronic motor neuropathies

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 184, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 53-57

  Bromberg, Mark B ^a   Swoboda, Kathryn J ^a   Lawson, Victoria H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal loss; Charcot Marie Tooth neuropathies; Motor unit number estimation; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; HAND MUSCLE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EID: 0242302344     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2003.07.008     Document Type: Article

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