Reliability of the interval death rate analysis for estimating the time course of the motoneurone afterhyperpolarization in humans

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 314-319

  MacDonell, Christopher William ^a   Ivanova, Tanya Dimitrova ^a   Garland, S Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Human; Motoneurone; Motor unit; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CELL DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34047187858     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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