Fast responses to stepping on an unexpected surface height depend on intact large-diameter nerve fibers: A study on Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A disease

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1684-1698

  Van Der Linden, Marleen H ^a   De Kam, Digna ^a   Van Engelen, Baziel G M ^a   Hendricks, Henk T ^a   Duysens, Jacques ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; GAIT; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 70349287607     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91142.2008     Document Type: Article

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