Passive and active exercise improve regeneration and muscle reinnervation after peripheral nerve injury in the rat

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 500-509

  Udina, Esther ^a,b   Puigdemasa, Antoni ^c   Navarro, Xavier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Exercise; Nerve regeneration; Reinnervation; Spinal reflexes; Treadmill

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EXERCISE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOFFMANN REFLEX; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE LESION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE EXERCISE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL REFLEX; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INNERVATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 79953065249     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21912     Document Type: Article

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