A comparison of the excitability of motor axons innervating the APB and ADM muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2290-2293

  Murray, J E ^a   Jankelowitz, S K ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Median; Peripheral nerve; Ulnar

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI MUSCLE; ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST;

ADULT; AXONS; CHRONAXY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULNAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053189734     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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