Electrically mediated regeneration and guidance of adult mammalian spinal axons into polymeric channels

Neuroscience

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 251-264

  Borgens, R B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric field; Guidance channel; Nerve guidance; Nerve regeneration; Spinal cord; Voltage gradient

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; GUINEA PIG; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE REGENERATION; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032949709     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00584-3     Document Type: Article

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