Muscle-selective block using intrafascicular high-frequency alternating current

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-347

  Dowden, Brett R ^a   Wark, Heather A C ^b   Normann, Richard A ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency alternating current; Intrafascicular; Microelectrode arrays; Muscle block; Nerve conduction block; Neuromuscular block

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FORCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 77956035153     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21678     Document Type: Article

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