Nitric oxide induced ectopic firing in a lumbar nerve root with cauda equina compression

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 408, Issue , 2003, Pages 167-173

  Onozawa, Tsukasa ^a   Atsuta, Yuji ^a   Sato, Masaki ^a   Ikawa, Motoya ^a   Tsunekawa, Hiromi ^a   Feng, Xin ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL SPACE; ISCHIALGIA; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SILASTIC TUBE; SPINAL ROOT; SURAL NERVE;

EID: 0037337582     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200303000-00021     Document Type: Article

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