Variations in excitability of single human motor axons, related to stochastic properties of nodal sodium channels

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 559, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 953-964

  Hales, John Paul ^a,b   Lin, Cindy Shin Yi ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANVIER NODE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SODIUM CURRENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; AXONS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; RANVIER'S NODES; SODIUM CHANNELS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 4644280632     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.068726     Document Type: Article

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