Mechanisms underlying reversal of motor unit activation order in electrically evoked contractions after spinal cord injury

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 210-218

  Kayagil, Turan A ^a   Grimes, Jason P ^a   Grill, Warren M ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational simulation; Extracellular stimulation; Human thenar muscle; Motor unit recruitment; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DEMYELINATION; DENERVATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; REMYELINIZATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THENAR;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 38949194513     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20914     Document Type: Article

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