Effects of chronic electrical stimulation on paralyzed expiratory muscles

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1634-1640

  DiMarco, Anthony F ^a   Kowalski, Krzysztof E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Respiratory muscles; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY PRESSURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREATHING MUSCLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; ANIMAL; COUGHING; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXHALATION; LAMINECTOMY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; TIME; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; CATS; COUGH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXHALATION; LAMINECTOMY; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 49649110409     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01321.2007     Document Type: Article

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