Plasticity of inwardly rectifying conductances following a corticospinal lesion in human subjects

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 581, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 927-940

  Jankelowitz, Stacey K ^a   Howells, James ^a   Burke, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONDUCTANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LATENT PERIOD; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD LESION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AXONS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WRIST;

EID: 34250016071     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.123661     Document Type: Article

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