Evaluation of periodic electrodiagnostic measurements to monitor motor recovery after different peripheral nerve lesions in the rat

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-73

  Korte, Nele ^a   Schenk, Henning C ^b   Grothe, Claudia ^a,c   Tipold, Andrea ^b,c   Haastert Talini, Kirsten ^a,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c Center for Systems Neurosciences Hanover   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compound muscle action potential; Electrodiagnostic evaluation; Motor recovery; Nerve fiber density; Rat; Sciatic nerve regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PINCH TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE CRUSH INJURY; STATIC SCIATIC INDEX;

ANIMALS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959320074     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22023     Document Type: Article

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