A novel motion analysis approach reveals late recovery in C57BL/6 mice and deficits in NCAM-deficient mice after sciatic nerve crush

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 815-828

  Fey, Andreas ^a   Schachner, Melitta ^a,b,c   Irintchev, Andrey ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knockout mice; Nerve regeneration; Neural cell adhesion molecule; Recovery of function; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEAM WALKING TEST; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LADDER CLIMBING TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERONEUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SINGLE FRAME MOTION ANALYSIS; TIBIAL NERVE; TOE; VIDEORECORDING; WILD TYPE;

EID: 77952969357     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2009.1217     Document Type: Article

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