The responses of mammalian spinal axons to an applied DC voltage gradient

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 145, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 376-389

  Borgens, Richard B ^a   Bohnert, Debra M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GROWTH CONE; GUINEA PIG; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0030788457     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6499     Document Type: Article

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