Reduction in the motor unit number estimate (MUNE) after cerebral infarction

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 27-32

  Arasaki, Keisuke ^a   Igarashi, Osamu ^a   Ichikawa, Yasumitsu ^a   Machida, Toru ^a   Shirozu, Ichiro ^a   Hyodo, Akira ^b   Ushijima, Ryosuke ^b  

^a Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

^b NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Hand weakness; Hypothenar muscle group; Motor unit number estimate (MUNE); Spinal alpha motor neurons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPOTHENAR MUSCLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STROKE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THENAR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750521998     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2006.06.024     Document Type: Article

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