Reinnervation of extraocular muscles by facial-to-oculomotor nerve anastomosis in rats: Anatomic nuclear changes

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 409-415

  Fernandez, Eduardo ^a   Di Rocco, Federico ^a   Lauretti, Liverana ^a   Gangitano, Carlo ^b   Del Fà, Aurora ^b   Massimi, Luca ^a   Maira, Giulio ^a   Pallini, Roberto ^a   Kline, David G ^c   Vighetto, Alain ^c   Sindou, Marc P ^c   Sekhar, Laligam N ^c   Takahashi, Jun ^c   Hashimoto, Nobuo ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Central nervous system plasticity; Cranial nerve repair; Facial nerve; Nerve regeneration; Oculomotor nerve

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MEDIAL RECTUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SKULL; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; SUPERIOR RECTUS MUSCLE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TROCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0043092516     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000073988.28813.77     Document Type: Article

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