Manual stimulation of the orbicularis oculi muscle improves eyelid closure after facial nerve injury in adult rats

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-205

  Bischoff, Anna ^a   Grosheva, Maria ^a   Irintchev, Andrey ^b   Skouras, Emmanouil ^a   Kaidoglou, Katerina ^c   Michael, Joern ^a   Angelova, Srebrina K ^a   Kuerten, Stefanie ^a   Sinis, Nektarios ^d   Dunlop, Sarah A ^e   Angelov, Doychin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Eye closure; Facial nerve; Motoneuron; Motor endplates; Orbicularis oculi muscle; Polyinnervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STANDARDIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYELID DISEASES; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NERVE REGENERATION; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 60549102306     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21126     Document Type: Article

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