Brief electrical stimulation promotes the speed and accuracy of motor axonal regeneration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2602-2608

  Al Majed, Abdulhakeem A ^a   Neumann, Catherine M ^a   Brushart, Thomas M ^b   Gordon, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Motoneuron; PMR; Retrograde labeling; Staggered regeneration; TTX

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMORAL NERVE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0034175684     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-07-02602.2000     Document Type: Article

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