Cold injury to nerves is not due to ischaemia alone

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 989-1001

  Jia, Jianping ^a   Pollock, Martin ^a   Jia, Jianmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal model; Direct cold injury; Hyperaemia; Nerve blood flow; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COLD; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0031946426     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.5.989     Document Type: Article

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