Stimulus-response curve of human motor nerves: Multicenter assessment of various indexes

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-38

  Boerio D ^a,b   Hogrel, J Y ^b   Lefaucheur, J P ^a   Wang, F C ^c   Verschueren, A ^d   Pouget, J ^d   Carrera, E ^e   Kuntzer, T ^e  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CHU SART TILMAN   (Belgium)

^d TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intensity threshold; Membrane properties; Nerve excitability; Normative data; Stimulus duration; Stimulus intensity; Stimulus response curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 40149101393     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: 17697131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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