Time course of muscle atrophy and recovery following a phenol-induced nerve block

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 497-504

  Bodine Fowler, Sue C ^a,b   Allsing, Stephen ^a   Botte, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conduction velocity; contractile properties; denervation; myosin heavy chains; reinnervation

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; PHENOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRUSH TRAUMA; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; NERVE BLOCK; PHENOL; PHENOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029978026     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.880190404     Document Type: Article

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