Innervation and properties of the rat FDSBQ muscle: An animal model to evaluate voluntary muscle strength after incomplete spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-289

  Thomas, Christine K ^a   Esipenko, Vladimir ^a   Xu, Xiao Ming ^a   Madsen III, Parley W ^a   Gordon, Tessa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluorescent tracing; Muscle histochemistry.; Muscle weakness; Partial muscle denervation; Partial muscle paralysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FEMALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 0032815814     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7084     Document Type: Article

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