Electrical stimulation of intact peripheral sensory axons in rats promotes outgrowth of their central projections

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 238-247

  Udina, Esther ^a   Furey, Matthew ^a   Busch, Sarah ^b   Silver, Jerry ^b   Gordon, Tessa ^a   Fouad, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; cAMP; Conditioning lesion; DRG; Electrical stimulation; Neurite outgrowth; Peripheral nerve; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLERA TOXIN; CYCLIC AMP; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 39249085066     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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