Cutaneous silent period in human FDI motor units

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 455-463

  Kahya, Mehmet C ^a,b   Utku Yavuz, S ^a   Türker, Kemal S ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Frequency analyses; Long latency excitation; Nociceptive reflex response; PSTH; Surface EMG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS SILENT PERIOD; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957760684     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2380-6     Document Type: Article

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