Age-related changes in motor unit number estimates in adult patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1098-1104

  Van Dijk, J P ^a   Verhamme, C ^b   Van Schaik, I N ^b   Schelhaas, H J ^a   Mans, E ^b   Bour, L J ^b   Stegeman, D F ^a,c   Zwarts, M J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

axonal dysfunction; Charcot Marie Tooth disease; CMT1A; compound muscle action potential; hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies; hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy Ia; high density surface EMG; motor unit number estimation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAND STRENGTH; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AXONS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE DEGENERATION;

EID: 77954647117     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2010.03027.x     Document Type: Article

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