Motor Unit Number Index (MUNIX): Reference values of five different muscles in healthy subjects from a multi-centre study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1895-1898

  Neuwirth, Christoph ^a   Nandedkar, Sanjeev ^b   Stålberg, Erik ^c   Barkhaus, Paul E ^d   Carvalho, Mamede de ^e   Furtula, Jasna ^f   van Dijk, Johannes P ^g   Baldinger, Reto ^a   Castro, José ^e   Costa, João ^e   Otto, Marit ^f   Sandberg, Arne ^c   Weber, Markus ^h  

^a Neuromuscular Diseases Unit   (Switzerland)

^b CareFusion   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^e HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

MUNE; MUNIX; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER INDEX; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC INTERFERENCE PATTERN; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960890098     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.05.014     Document Type: Letter

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