Continuous stimulation of transected distal nerves fails to prolong action potential propagation

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 447, Issue , 2006, Pages 209-213

  O'Gara, Tadhg ^a   Urban, William ^a   Polishchuk, Daniil ^a   Pierre Louis, Alain ^a   Stewart, Mark ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SCIATIC NERVE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INJURY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33746097449     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203481.11797.0f     Document Type: Article

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