Properties of low-threshold motor axons in the human median nerve

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 2503-2515

  Trevillion, Louise ^a   Howells, James ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^b   Burke, David ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDIAN NERVE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTOR UNIT; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SODIUM CURRENT; ACTION POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SODIUM CHANNELS; YOUNG ADULT; HYPERPOLARIZATION-ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CHANNELS;

HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

EID: 77954468057     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.190884     Document Type: Article

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