title: Motor nerve conduction velocity in normal chickens.
abstract: Muscle potentials evoked by proximal and distal tibial nerve stimulation were evaluated and used to calculate motor nerve conduction velocity in 65 chickens. Two potentials analogous to the M and F waves recorded in persons consistently were evoked. The mean tibial motor nerve conduction velocity +/- SD of the birds was 32.3 +/- 4.0 m/s. This value varied significantly (P less than 0.05) with both age and cloacal temperature.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001831:Body Temperature; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D002988:Cloaca / Q000502:physiology; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009431:Neural Conduction; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000502:physiology