Electrical stimulation prior to delayed reinnervation does not enhance recovery in muscles of rats

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 601-610

  Dow, Douglas E ^a   Cederna, Paul S ^b   Hassett, Cheryl A ^c   Dennis, Robert G ^d   Faulkner, John A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina ^*  (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractile activity; Extensor digitorum longus; Motor function; Nerve repair; Neurorrhaphy; Walking track

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149123755     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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