Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A dying motor unit?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Piotrkiewicz, Maria ^a   Hausmanowa Petrusewicz, Irena ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMBIGUITY; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; FASCICULATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; SPIKE;

EID: 84883528186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00007     Document Type: Article

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