Assessment of recovery following a novel partial nerve lesion in a rat model

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 609-617

  Malushte, Tejashree S ^a   Kerns, James M ^a   Huang, Chris C ^a   Shott, Susan ^a   Safanda, John ^b   Gonzalez, Mark ^b,c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Department of Ambulatory and Community Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Muscle denervation; Nerve regeneration; Neurectomy; Partial nerve injury; Walking track analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRUSH TRAUMA; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE LESION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 7444247323     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20152     Document Type: Article

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