Peripheral and Spinal Motor Reorganization after Nerve Injury and Repair

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-108

  Valero Cabré, Antoni ^a,e   Tsironis, Konstantin ^b   Skouras, Emmanouil ^c,d   Navarro, Xavier ^a   Neiss, Wolfram F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b St Katharinen Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Misdirected reinnervation; Regeneration; Retrograde tracers; Sciatic nerve; Spinal cord reorganization; Tubulization

Indexed keywords

1,1' DIOCTADECYL 3,3,3',3' TETRAMETHYLINDOCARBOCYANINE; FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE; FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SILASTIC TUBE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SUTURING METHOD; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING;

EID: 0942301274     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089771504772695986     Document Type: Article

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