Post reinnervation maturation of myelinated nerve fibers in the cat tibial nerve: Chronic electrophysiological and morphometric studies

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 82-95

  Fugleholm, Kåre ^a,b   Schmalbruch, Henning ^a   Krarup, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Diameter; Nerve fibers; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE REPAIR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIBIAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033918687     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8027.2000.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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