Electrically Stimulated Axon Reflexes Are Diminished in Diabetic Small Fiber Neuropathies

Diabetes

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 769-774

  Krämer, Heidrun H ^a   Schmelz, Martin ^b   Birklein, Frank ^a   Bickel, Andreas ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER C; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AXONS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN; PERONEAL NERVE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; SKIN;

EID: 1442301066     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.3.769     Document Type: Article

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