A study of synaptic connection between low threshold afferent fibres in common peroneal nerve and motoneurones in human tibialis anterior

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 465-472

  Prasartwuth, Orawan ^a   Binboğa, Erdal ^b   Türker, Kemal S ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Excitatory postsynaptic potentials; Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials; Peristimulus frequencygram; Peristimulus time histogram; Synaptic connection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 55049091154     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1536-0     Document Type: Article

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