Nerve-muscle-endplate band grafting: A new technique for muscle reinnervation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 208-224

  Mu, Liancai ^a   Sobotka, Stanislaw ^a,b   Su, Hungxi ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Histology; Immunocytochemistry; Muscle paralysis; Muscle reinnervation; Nerve muscle endplate band grafting; Neurobiology; Peripheral nerve injury; Retrograde horseradish peroxidase neuronal tracing; Sternohyoid muscle; Sternomastoid muscle; Tetanic force

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE MUSCLE ENDPLATE BAND GRAFTING; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 80955158721     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822ed596     Document Type: Article

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