Direct measurement of human sympathetic nerve conduction velocity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 128-133

  Kondo, Masahide ^a,b   Iwase, Satoshi ^a   Mano, Tadaaki ^a,c   Kuzuhara, Shigeki ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIE NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Tokai Central Hospital of Japan Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double recording technique; Human unmyelinated sympathetic nerve; Microneurography; Skin sympathetic nerve activity; Sympathetic conduction velocity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TIBIAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VASOMOTOR SYSTEM;

EID: 0346100649     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10490     Document Type: Article

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