Distal excitability changes in motor axons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1444-1448

  Nakata, Miho ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a   Kanai, Kazuaki ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a   Tamura, Noriko ^a   Sawai, Setsu ^a   Hattori, Takamichi ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Fasciculation; Motor nerve terminal; Potassium channel; Threshold tracking

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FASCICULATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; WRIST;

EID: 33745408196     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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