Chapter 13 Statistical motor unit number estimation and ALS trials. the effect of motor unit instability

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 60, Issue C, 2009, Pages 135-141

  Shefner, Jeremy M ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 77956623868     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(08)00013-5     Document Type: Chapter

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