Intrinsic and therapeutic factors determining the recovery of motor function after peripheral nerve transection

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 286-303

  Skouras, Emmanouil ^a   Ozsoy, Umut ^b   Sarikcioglu, Levent ^b   Angelov, Doychin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Electrical stimulation; Facial nerve; Facial palsy; Mechanical stimulation; Motor endplates; Physiotherapy; Polyinnervation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2 ANTIBODY; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR ANTIBODY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SCLEROPROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EYELID CLOSURE; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FOREARM; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE DISEASE; MEDIAN NERVE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE ELONGATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE LESION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE SUTURE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELL; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; HUMANS; MASSAGE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79960211452     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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