Amputation with median nerve redirection (targeted reinnervation) reactivates forepaw barrel subfield in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 16008-16014

  Marasco, Paul D ^a,d   Kuiken, Todd A ^a,b,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FOREFOOT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SENSATION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TARGETED REINNERVATION;

AMPUTATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FORELIMB; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 78649417327     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4044-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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