810 nm wavelength light: An effective therapy for transected or contused rat spinal cord

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-41

  Wu, Xingjia ^a   Dmitriev, Anton E ^a   Cardoso, Mario J ^b   Viers Costello, Angela G ^a   Borke, Rosemary C ^a   Streeter, Jackson ^c   Anders, Juanita J ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PhotoThera Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Corticospinal tract; Dorsal hemisection; Low power laser irradiation; MASCIS impactor; Photobiomodulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CONTUSIONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 58449109403     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20729     Document Type: Article

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