Evaluation of the vestibular evoked myogenic potential during parabolic flight in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 477-481

  Shojaku, Hideo ^a   Watanabe, Yukio ^a   Tsubota, Masahito ^a   Katayama, Naomi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microgravity; p13 n23 amplitude; Parabolic flight; Saccule; VEMP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 43449096605     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1384-y     Document Type: Article

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