Cold nerve injury is enhanced by intermittent cooling

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1644-1652

  Jia, Jianping ^a   Pollock, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal model; Nerve blood flow; Nerve cooling; Reperfusion injury; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLD INJURY; COOLING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SCIATIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0032711220     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199912)22:12<1644::AID-MUS5>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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