Ultrastructural changes in axons following exposure to pulsed radiofrequency fields

Pain Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 407-417

  Erdine, Serdar ^a   Bilir, Ayhan ^b   Cosman, Eric R ^c,d  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Microtubules; Mitochondria; PRF; Pulsed radiofrequency; Sensory axon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENERATOR; MALE; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PULSED RADIOFREQUENCY FIELD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SCORING SYSTEM; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; MALE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROTUBULES; MITOCHONDRIA; NERVE FIBERS; RADIO WAVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 74049124549     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2009.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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