Comparison of Neurotization Versus Nerve Repair in an Animal Model of Chronically Denervated Muscle

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1093-1099

  Swanson, Andrew N ^a   Wolfe, Scott W ^a   Khazzam, Michael ^a   Feinberg, Joseph ^a   Ehteshami, John ^a   Doty, Stephen ^a  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic denervation; motor end plate; rat model; reinnervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; INNERVATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 50249113291     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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