Accelerating functional recovery after rat facial nerve injury: Effects of gonadal steroids and electrical stimulation

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-67

  Hetzler, Laura E T ^a   Sharma, Nijee ^a   Tanzer, Lisa ^c   Wurster, Robert D ^b   Leonetti, John ^a   Marzo, Sam J ^a   Jones, Kathryn J ^b,c   Foecking, Eileen M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CRUSH TRAUMA; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; MALE; MOTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 45549101085     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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