Extracellular potentials of myelinated and demyelinated human motor nerve fibres

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 497-501

  Stephanova, D I ^a   Daskalova, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Electromyogram (EMG); Intracellular and extracellular potentials; Myelinated and demyelinated human motor nerve fibres

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DEMYELINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MODEL; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0346272794     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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