Titanium mesh implantation - A method to stabilize the spine and protect the spinal cord following a multilevel laminectomy in the adult rat

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Nieto, Jaime H ^a   Hoang, Thao X ^a   Warner, Elizabeth A ^a   Franchini, Brett T ^a   Westerlund, Ulf ^a,b   Havton, Leif A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Motoneuron; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GAIT; IMPLANT; LAMINECTOMY; MOTONEURON; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; URETHRA; URINE RETENTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LAMINECTOMY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINE; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23044445185     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2004.09.031     Document Type: Article

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