Discharge variability of motor units in an intrinsic muscle of transplanted hand

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2232-2240

  Farina, Dario ^a,b   Pozzo, Marco ^c   Lanzetta, Marco ^d   Enoka, Roger M ^e  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Italian Institute of Hand Surgery   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACTION POTENTIAL; CASE REPORT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; HAND INJURY; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSPLANTATION;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 47549107900     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01273.2007     Document Type: Article

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