Abnormal spontaneous potentials in distal muscles in animal models of spinal cord injury

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-51

  Burns, Anthony S ^a   Lemay, Michel A ^b   Tessler, Alan ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Denervation; Electromyography; Muscle denervation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL MYOPATHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 11144228709     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20229     Document Type: Article

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