Different mechanisms underlying changes in excitability of peripheral nerve sensory and motor axons in multiple sclerosis

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-60

  Ng, Karl ^a,b,c   Howells, James ^a,c   Pollard, John D ^a,c   Burke, David ^c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Demyelination; Multiple sclerosis; Peripheral nerves; Potassium channels; Superexcitability

Indexed keywords

BETA1A INTERFERON; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE ACTION POTENTIAL; UPREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELIN SHEATH; NEURAL CONDUCTION;

EID: 84871310855     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23455     Document Type: Article

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