Orderly activation of human motor neurons using electrical ramp prepulses

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 597-604

  Hennings, Kristian ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Andersen, Ole K ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Axonal excitability; Compound muscle action potential; Selective electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

EID: 13844275461     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.09.011     Document Type: Article

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