Reorganization in motor cortex after brachial plexus avulsion injury and repair with the contralateral C7 root transfer in rats

Microsurgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 314-320

  Jiang, Su ^a   Li, Zhan Yu ^b   Hua, Xu Yun ^a   Xu, Wen Dong ^a,c   Xu, Jian Guang ^a   Gu, Yu Dong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE ROOT; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 77952981106     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20747     Document Type: Article

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