Acute repair of crushed guinea pig spinal cord by polyethylene glycol

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2406-2414

  Shi, Riyi ^a   Borgens, Richard B ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; MACROGOL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SUCROSE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032981949     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.5.2406     Document Type: Article

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