Behavioural and anatomical analysis of selective tibial nerve branch transfer to the deep peroneal nerve in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1074-1090

  Kemp, Stephen W P ^a   Alant, Jacob ^a   Walsh, Sarah K ^a   Webb, Aubrey A ^a   Midha, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground reaction forces; Kinematics; Nerve repair; Retrograde tracing; Skilled locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GOLD STANDARD; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; PERONEAL NEUROPATHIES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RHODAMINES; TIBIAL NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949560455     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07130.x     Document Type: Article

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