Do corticomotoneuronal cells predict target muscle EMG activity?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1169-1186

  Griffin, D M ^a   Hudson, H M ^a   Belhaj Saif A ^a,b   McKiernan, B J ^a,c   Cheney, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 40949165277     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00906.2007     Document Type: Article

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