Forelimb muscle activity following nerve graft repair of ventral roots in the rat cervical spinal cord

Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 487-496

  Chuang, Tien Yow ^a   Huang, Ming Chao ^a   Chen, Kuo Chih ^a   Chang, Yue Cune ^b   Yen, Yu Shu ^a   Lee, Liang Shong ^a   Cheng, Henrich ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Nerve graft; Nerve growth factor; Rats; Regeneration; Root avulsion

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBRIN GLUE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PIA MATER; PROBABILITY; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; FORELIMB; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0037150786     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(02)01623-5     Document Type: Article

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