Phrenic motor neuron degeneration compromises phrenic axonal circuitry and diaphragm activity in a unilateral cervical contusion model of spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 539-552

  Nicaise, Charles ^a,b   Hala, Tamara J ^a   Frank, David M ^a   Parker, Jessica L ^a,c   Authelet, Michèle ^b   Leroy, Karelle ^b   Brion, Jean Pierre ^b   Wright, Megan C ^c   Lepore, Angelo C ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c ARCADIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; Contusion; Diaphragm; Phrenic motor neuron; Phrenic nerve; Rat; Respiratory function; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAPHRAGM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE NET; PHRENIC NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84860359095     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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