Manual stimulation, but not acute electrical stimulation prior to reconstructive surgery, improves functional recovery after facial nerve injury in rats

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-251

  Skouras, Emmanouil ^a   Merkel, Daniel ^a   Grosheva, Maria ^a   Angelova, Srebrina K ^a   Schiffer, Gereon ^a   Thelen, Ulrich ^a   Kaidoglou, Katerina ^b   Sinis, Nektarios ^c   Igelmund, Peter ^a   Dunlop, Sarah A ^d   Pavlov, Stoyan ^e   Irintchev, Andrey ^f   Angelov, Doychin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Facial nerve; Functional recovery; Motoneuron; Nerve repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STILBAMIDINES; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 68149180698     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2009-0474     Document Type: Article

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