Potassium and the excitability properties of normal human motor axons in vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Boërio, Delphine ^a   Bostock, Hugh ^a,b   Spescha, Romana ^a   Z'Graggen, Werner J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; POTASSIUM CURRENT; VOLUNTEER; ACTION POTENTIAL; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POTASSIUM; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902492639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098262     Document Type: Article

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