Inaccurate projection of rat soleus motoneurons: A comparison of nerve repair techniques

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-37

  Bodine Fowler, Sue C ^a,b   Meyer, R Scott ^a   Moskovitz, Alex ^a   Abrams, Reid ^a   Botte, Michael J ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

denervation; reinnervation; silicone tube repair; specificity muscle adaptation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0031015955     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199701)20:1<29::AID-MUS4>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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