Sensory protection of rat muscle spindles following peripheral nerve injury and reinnervation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1860-1868

  Elsohemy, Amal ^b   Butler, Richard ^b   Bain, James R ^b   Fahnestock, Margaret ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY; INNERVATION; LEWIS RAT; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 74049108919     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bcee47     Document Type: Article

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