Validation of an incremental motor unit number estimation technique in rabbits

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 794-799

  David, William S ^a   Goyal, Namita ^a   Henry, Francis P ^a   Baldassari, Laura E ^b   Redmond, Robert W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Histomorphometry; Incremental stimulation; Motor unit number estimation; Rabbit; Summated single motor unit action potentials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR UNIT; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77953051928     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21590     Document Type: Article

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