Sympathetic nerves bridge the cross-transmission in hemifacial spasm

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 517, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-55

  Zheng, Xuesheng ^a   Hong, Wenyao ^a   Tang, Yinda ^a   Wu, Zhenghai ^a   Shang, Ming ^a   Zhang, Wenchuan ^b   Zhong, Jun ^a,b   Li, Shiting ^a,b  

^a XINHUA HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Cranial Nerve Disease Center of Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

Cross transmission; Facial nerve; Hemifacial spasm; Offending artery; Sympathetic nerve

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE SYMPATHETIC NERVE CROSS TRANSMISSION; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; VAGOTOMY; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RATS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84861348156     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.04.023     Document Type: Article

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