Relationship between size and latency of action potentials in human muscle sympathetic nerve activity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2830-2842

  Salmanpour, Aryan ^a   Brown, Lyndon J ^a   Steinback, Craig D ^a   Usselman, Charlotte W ^a   Goswami, Ruma ^a   Shoemaker, J Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potential detection; Microneurography; Postganglionic sympathetic nerve activity; Size principle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVERSE INDEX OF NEURAL CONDUCTION VELOCITY; LATENT PERIOD; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MICRONEUROGRAPHY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGANGLIONIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959335150     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00814.2010     Document Type: Article

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