Long-term reinnervation effects after sciatic nerve lesions in adult rats

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-120

  Ijkema Paassen, Jos ^a   Meek, Marcel F ^b   Gramsbergen, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fiber type distribution; Long term; Polyneural innervation; Rat; Reinnervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 21244496686     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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