Efficacy of reconstituted and stored botulinum toxin type A: An electrophysiologic and visual study in the auricular muscle of the rabbit

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2419-2426

  Jabor, Mark A ^b   Kaushik, Richa ^b   Shayani, Payam ^b   Ruiz Razura, Amado ^b   Smith, Bruce K ^b   Morimoto, Kaiulani W ^b   Cohen, Benjamin E ^a  

^a St Joseph's Medical Center Houston   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STORAGE; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STORAGE; EAR, EXTERNAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; RABBITS;

EID: 0037643550     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000061003.68203.56     Document Type: Article

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