Standard and modified statistical mune evaluations in spinal-bulbar muscular atrophy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 809-814

  Lehky, Tanya J ^a   Chen, Cheun Ju ^a   Di Prospero, Nicholas A ^a   Rhodes, Lindsay E ^a   Fischbeck, Kenneth ^a   Floeter, Mary Kay ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor neuron disease; Motor unit number estimation; Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 71549130415     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21399     Document Type: Article

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