Motor unit number estimation in the rat tail using a modified multipoint stimulation technique

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-121

  Kasselman, Lora J ^a   Shefner, Jeremy M ^b   Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Motor neuron disease; Motor unit number estimate; Neuropathy; Tail

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HINDLIMB; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TAIL;

EID: 67650228331     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21248     Document Type: Article

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