Motoneurone afterhyperpolarisation time-course following stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 544-551

  Ivanova, Tanya D ^a   Knorr, Svetlana ^b   MacDonell, Christopher W ^c   Pollock, Courtney L ^a   Garland, S Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarisation; Human; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARISATION; HUMAN; STROKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84894358325     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.08.017     Document Type: Article

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