The pathogenesis of non-freezing cold nerve injury. Observations in the rat

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 631-646

  Jia, Jianping ^a   Pollock, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cold injury; Ischaemia; Nerve blood flow; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; WAR;

EID: 0030946779     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.4.631     Document Type: Article

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