Manual stimulation of the suprahyoid-sublingual region diminishes polynnervation of the motor endplates and improves recovery of function after hypoglossal nerve injury in rats

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 754-768

  Evgenieva, Emilia ^a   Schweigert, Patrick ^b   Guntinas Lichius, Orlando ^c   Pavlov, Stoyan ^d   Grosheva, Maria ^b   Angelova, Srebrina ^b   Streppel, Michael ^b   Irintchev, Andrey ^e   Skouras, Emmanouil ^b   Kuerten, Stefanie ^b   Sinis, Nektarios ^f   Dunlop, Sarah ^g   Radeva, Victoria ^a   Angelov, Doychin N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axonal sprouting; Axotomy; Hypoglossal nerve; Motoneuron; Motor cortex; Neuromuscular junction; Polyinnervation; Suprahyoid sublingual region

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TONGUE;

AMIDINES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASES; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STILBAMIDINES; TONGUE; TUBULIN;

EID: 54249158696     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968308316387     Document Type: Article

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