How age impairs the response of the neuromuscular junction to nerve transection and repair: An experimental study in rats

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-393

  Apel, Peter J ^a   Alton, Timothy ^a   Northam, Casey ^a   Ma, Jianjun ^a   Callahan, Michael ^a   Sonntag, William E ^b   Li, Zhongyu ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptor; Aging; Myogenic regulatory factor; Nerve injury; Neuromuscular junction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; MYOGENIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BONE AGE; CELL AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; UPREGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; BROWN NORWAY RAT; FISCHER 344 RAT; INJURY; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIAL NERVE;

AGING; ANIMALS; MALE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGENIN; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TIBIAL NERVE; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 62249202916     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20773     Document Type: Article

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