Morphometric analysis of the fiber populations of the rat sciatic nerve, its spinal roots, and its major branches

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 503, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-100

  Prodanov, Dimiter ^a,b   Feirabend, Hans K P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Implantable electrodes; Myelinated nerve fibers; Optimal models; Rattus norvegicus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL ROOT; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 34347394550     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21375     Document Type: Article

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