Effects of age on excitability properties in human motor axons

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2282-2286

  Bae, Jong Seok ^a,b   Sawai, Setsu ^a   Misawa, Sonoko ^a   Kanai, Kazuaki ^a   Isose, Sagiri ^a   Shibuya, Kazumoto ^a   Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Age; Aging; Axonal excitability; Inward rectification; Nerve excitability testing; Persistent sodium channel; Threshold tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AXONS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949148175     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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