Motor nerve conduction velocity in normal chickens.
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.
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