Origins of abnormal excitability in biceps brachii motoneurons of spastic-paretic stroke survivors

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2026-2038

  Mottram, Carol J ^a   Suresh, Nina L ^a   Heckman, C J ^b   Gorassini, Monica A ^c   Rymer, William Z ^a  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPASTIC PARESIS; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SURVIVOR; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ELBOW; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PARESIS; STROKE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 70350266562     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00151.2009     Document Type: Article

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