Electrophysiology and morphometry of the Aα- and Aβ-fiber populations in the normal and regenerating rat sciatic nerve

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 337-349

  Vleggeert Lankamp, Carmen L A M ^a   Van Den Berg, Rutgeris J ^a   Feirabend, Hans K P ^a   Lakke, Egbert A J F ^a   Malessy, Martijn J A ^a   Thomeer, Ralph T W M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A and A fibers; Electrophysiology; Morphometry; Nerve graft; Regeneration; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 2342493784     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.01.019     Document Type: Article

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