Qdirt: Quantitative direct and indirect test of sudomotor function

Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2299-2304

  Gibbons, Christopher H ^a   Illigens, Ben M W ^a   Centi, Justin ^a   Freeman, Roy ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; INDICATOR; SILICONE; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIRECT AND INDIRECT REFLEX TESTING OF SUDOMOTOR FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE SUDOMOTOR AXON REFLEX TEST; SWEATING; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ADULT; AXONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; REFLEX; SILICONES; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 46049111474     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000314646.49565.c0     Document Type: Article

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