Reinnervation of motor units in intrinsic muscles of a transplanted hand

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 373, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-143

  Lanzetta, Marco ^a   Pozzo, Marco ^b   Bottin, Andrea ^b   Merletti, Roberto ^b   Farina, Dario ^c  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Discharge rate; Hand transplantation; Motor unit; Multi channel surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; DENERVATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVALUATION; FINGER; HAND MUSCLE; HAND TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9644283002     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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