Regenerative effects of pulsed magnetic field on injured peripheral nerves

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 42-49

  Mert, Tufan ^a   Gunay, Ismail ^a   Gocmen, Cemil ^b   Kaya, Mehmet ^c   Polat, Sait ^c  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Pharmacology ^*

^c University of Cukurova School of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MORPHOLOGY; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE REGENERATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 33748778268     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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