Fully intact contact heat evoked potentials in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 735-738

  Xu, Ying Sheng ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Zheng, Ju Yang ^a   Zhang, Shuo ^a   Kang, De Xuan ^a   Fan, Dong Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Contact heat evoked potentials; Nociceptive pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTACT HEAT EVOKED POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HEAT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 67049137548     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21232     Document Type: Article

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