Fibrillation potentials following spinal cord injury: Improvement with neurotrophins and exercise

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 607-613

  Burns, Anthony S ^a   Boyce, Vanessa S ^b   Tessler, Alan ^b   Lemay, Michel A ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Denervation; Electromyography; Fibrillation potentials; Muscle denervation; Neurotrophic factors; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; HINDLIMB; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FIBROBLASTS; GENE THERAPY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 34247639909     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20738     Document Type: Article

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