Motor unit number index (MUNIX): Principle, method, and findings in healthy subjects and in patients with motor neuron disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 798-807

  Nandedkar, Sanjeev D ^a   Barkhaus, Paul E ^b   Stålberg, Erik V ^c  

^a CareFusion   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Motor neuron disease; Motor unit; Motor unit number estimation (MUNE); Serial studies; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER INDEX; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78149323771     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21824     Document Type: Article

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