Electrical stimulation of denervated muscles of rats maintains mass and force, but not recovery following grafting

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-54

  Dow, Douglas E ^a,b   Carlson, Bruce M ^a   Hassett, Cheryl A ^a   Dennis, Robert G ^a,b   Faulkner, John A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractility; Degeneration; EDL; Excitability; Extensor digitorum longus; Implantable stimulator; Regeneration; Reinnervation; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644588737     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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