Artificial voice modulation in dogs by recurrent laryngeal nerve stimulation: Electrophysiological confirmation of anatomic data

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-155

  Broniatowski, Michael ^a,d   Grundfest Broniatowski, Sharon ^a,b   Tucker, Harvey M ^a   Tyler, Dustin J ^c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agonist antagonist coupling; Artificial voice manipulation; Intrinsic laryngeal muscle motor unit; Orderly recruitment; Recurrent laryngeal nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VOICE MODULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG; DYNAMICS; DYSTONIA; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITABILITY; HUMIDITY; INNERVATION; LARYNX MUSCLE; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; VAGUS NERVE; VOICE;

EID: 33847336096     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348940711600211     Document Type: Article

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