Implantable device for long-term electrical stimulation of denervated muscles in rabbits

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 535-540

  Lanmuller H ^a   Ashley, Z ^b   Unger, E ^a   Sutherland, H ^b   Reichel, M ^a   Russold, M ^b   Jarvis, J ^b   Mayr, W ^a   Salmons, Stanley ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denervation; Excitability; Implantable stimulator; Rabbit; Radiotelemetry; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LITHIUM BATTERIES; MICROCONTROLLERS; MUSCLE; TELEMETERING;

DENERVATION; IMPLANTABLE STIMULATOR; RABBIT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

CHLORIDE; LITHIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONAXY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; IMPLANT; LONG TERM CARE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELIABILITY; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RABBITS; TELEMETRY;

EID: 27744521011     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02344737     Document Type: Article

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