Electrophysiological signs of changes in motor units after ischaemic stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1566-1570

  Lukács, Miklós ^a  

^a Diósgyor Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Collateral reinnervation; Electrophysiology; Motor unit; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NEUROGRAPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PARESIS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 20444411441     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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