Thirty minutes of low intensity electrical stimulation promotes nerve regeneration after sciatic nerve crush injury in a rat model

Acta Neurologica Belgica

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-179

  Alrashdan, Mohammad S ^a   Park, Jong Chul ^a   Sung, Mi Ae ^b   Yoo, Sang Bae ^a   Jahng, Jeong Won ^a   Lee, Tae Hyung ^a   Kim, Sung June ^a   Lee, Jong Ho ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Department of Craniofacial Structure and Functional Biology ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crush injury; Electrical stimulation; Nerve regeneration; Rat sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUOROGOLD; MYELIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77955933116     PISSN: 03009009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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