Plasticity of lower limb motor axons after cervical cord injury

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 204-209

  Boland, Robert A ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^b   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a,c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nerve conduction; Neuronal plasticity; Peripheral nerves; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58149145580     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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