High- and low-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation delay sciatic nerve regeneration after crush lesion in the mouse

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-80

  Baptista, Abrahão F ^a,b,c   Gomes, Joyce R S ^c   Oliveira, Júlia T ^c   Santos, Soraia M G ^c   Vannier Santos, Marcos A ^b   Martinez, Ana M B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Dental School of Fundação Bahiana para O Desenvolvimento Das Ciências   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Function recovery; Histology; Mice; Nerve; Regeneration; Sciatic; Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 40849119948     PISSN: 10859489     EISSN: 15298027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8027.2008.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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