Firing pattern of fasciculations in ALS: Evidence for axonal and neuronal origin

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 353-359

  Kleine, Bert U ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^a,b   Schelhaas, Helenius J ^a,c   Zwarts, MacHiel J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands ALS Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 39749131694     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000300559.14806.2a     Document Type: Article

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