Functional recovery in T13-L1 hemisected rats resulting from peripheral nerve rerouting: Role of central neuroplasticity

Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-327

  Konya, Deniz ^a,b,c   Liao, Wei Lee ^b,d   Choi, Howard ^b,d   Yu, Dou ^a,b   Woodard, Matthew C ^a,b   Newton, Kimberly M ^a,b   King, Allyson M ^a,b   Pamir, Necmettin M ^c   Black, Peter M ^b   Frontera, Walter R ^d,e   Sabharwal, Sunil ^b,d   Teng, Yang D ^a,b,d  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Hemisection; Neural stem cell; Peripheral nervous system; Regeneration; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; LOCOMOTION; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48849104631     PISSN: 17460751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460751.3.3.309     Document Type: Article

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