Effects of chronic systemic theophylline injections on recovery of hemidiaphragmatic function after cervical spinal cord injury in adult rats

Brain Research

Volumn 789, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 126-129

  Nantwi, Kwaku D ^a   Goshgarian, Harry G ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spinal cord injury; Functional recovery; Hemidiaphragm; Phrenic nerve; Theophylline

Indexed keywords

THEOPHYLLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MUSCLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS;

ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; NECK; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RESPIRATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THEOPHYLLINE;

EID: 0032489945     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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