Impacts of lesion severity and tyrosine kinase receptor B deficiency on functional outcome of femoral nerve injury assessed by a novel single-frame motion analysis in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 802-808

  Irintchev, Andrey ^a   Simova, Olga ^a   Eberhardt, Kirsten A ^a   Morellini, Fabio ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Motion analysis; Peripheral nerve; Regeneration; Reinnervation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMORAL NEUROPATHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RELIABILITY; SINGLE FRAME MOTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 24144497987     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04274.x     Document Type: Article

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