Combinatorial treatments enhance recovery following facial nerve crush

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1523-1530

  Sharma, Nijee ^a   Moeller, Carl W ^b   Marzo, Sam J ^b   Jones, Kathryn J ^a,b,c   Foecking, Eileen M ^b,c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Facial nerve; Facial paralysis; Nerve injury; Nerve regeneration; Prednisone; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; AGENTS ACTING ON THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS AND NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; PREDNISONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 77955892958     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20997     Document Type: Article

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