Simulation of high-frequency sinusoidal electrical block of mammalian myelinated axons

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 313-326

  Bhadra, Niloy ^a,b   Lahowetz, Emily A ^a   Foldes, Stephen T ^a   Kilgore, Kevin L ^a,b,c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Depolarization; High frequency alternating current; Nerve conduction block; Nerve simulation; Sinusoidal currents

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

AXON DIAMETERS; CONDUCTION BLOCK; CURRENT CONDUCTION; HIGH FREQUENCY ALTERNATING CURRENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MYELINATED AXONS; NERVE CONDUCTION BLOCK; NERVE SIMULATION; SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; SINUSOIDAL WAVEFORMS;

MAMMALS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; MAMMAL; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; STEADY STATE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 34249882749     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-0015-5     Document Type: Article

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