Subthreshold continuous electrical stimulation facilitates functional recovery of facial nerve after crush injury in rabbit

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 251-258

  Kim, Jin ^a   Han, Su Jin ^b   Shin, Dong Hyun ^a   Lee, Won Sang ^a   Choi, Jae Young ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Facial nerve; Recovery; Threshold; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRUSH TRAUMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; BIOPHYSICS; DEXTRANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RABBITS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RHODAMINES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 78751674942     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21840     Document Type: Article

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