Bilateral changes in afterhyperpolarization duration of spinal motoneurones in post-stroke patients.

ABSTRACT: This paper extends the observations presented in the previously published work on the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) duration changes in motoneurones (MNs) on the paretic (more affected) side of 11 post-stroke patients by the same analysis on the non-paretic (less-affected) side. The estimated AHP duration for patients' MNs supplying more-affected muscles was significantly longer than control values and the elongation decreased with patient age and disorder duration. For MNs supplying less-affected muscles, dependency of AHP duration on age was closer to the control data, but the scatter was substantially bigger. However, the AHP duration estimate of less-affected MNs tended to be longer than that of controls in the short time elapsed since the stroke, and shorter than controls in the long t

SUBMITTER: Kuraszkiewicz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770035 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature