Re-innervation and recovery of rat soleus muscle and motor unit function after nerve crush

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 353-361

  Leterme, Damien ^a   Tyc F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 3543135297     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2004.027151     Document Type: Article

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