Electrical stimulation promotes motoneuron regeneration without increasing its speed or conditioning the neuron

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 6631-6638

  Brushart, Thomas M ^a,d   Hoffman, Paul N ^a   Royall, Richard M ^b   Murinson, Beth B ^a   Witzel, Christian ^a   Gordon, Tessa ^c  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracing; BDNF; Conditioning; Electrical stimulation; Neurobiotin; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; NEUROBIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NERVE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOTONEURON; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SUTURE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION;

EID: 0036703652     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-15-06631.2002     Document Type: Article

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