Atrophy-resistant fibers in permanent peripheral denervation of human skeletal muscle

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-144

  Biral, Donatella ^a   Kern, Helmut ^b   Adami, Nicoletta ^a   Boncompagni, Simona ^c   Protasi, Feliciano ^c   Carraro, Ugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dystrophin; Electron microscopy; Histopathology; Human muscle; Lower motor neuron lesion; NCAM; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Upper motor neuron lesion

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; DYSTROPHIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 44449169856     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313208X281145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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