Positive sharp wave origin: Evidence supporting the electrode initiation hypothesis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-356

  Dumitru, Daniel ^a   Santa Maria, Daniel L ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

End plate spike; Fibrillation potential; Needle electromyography; Positive sharp wave; Single muscle fiber

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 34548258862     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20819     Document Type: Article

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