The use of single phrenic axon recordings to assess diaphragm recovery after cervical spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 172-179

  El Bohy, Ashraf A ^a   Goshgarian, Harry G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Hemisection; Phrenic nerve; Plasticity; Respiration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION;

EID: 0032993910     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7013     Document Type: Article

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