Motor nerve transplantation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 615-624

  Gray, William P ^a,b   Keohane, Catherine ^a   Kirwan, William O ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denervation; Motor neuron; Muscle; Peripheral nerve; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SLOW MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0030883542     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.87.4.0615     Document Type: Article

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