Recovery of whisking function promoted by manual stimulation of the vibrissal muscles after facial nerve injury requires insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1)

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 226-234

  Kiryakova, S ^a   Sohnchen J ^a   Grosheva, M ^a   Schuetz, U ^a   Marinova, Ts ^b   Dzhupanova, R ^b   Sinis, N ^c   Hubbers C U ^a   Skouras, E ^a   Ankerne, J ^a   Fries, J W U ^d   Irintchev, A ^e   Dunlop, S A ^f   Angelov, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b St Kliment Ohridski   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Facial nerve; IGF 1; Mechanical stimulation; Mice; Motor end plate; Polyinnervation; Terminal Schwann cells; Whisking behavior

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN S 100; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELL; VIBRISSA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGENERATION; S100 PROTEINS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77649184434     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.12.031     Document Type: Article

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