The lateral thoracic nerve and the cutaneous maximus muscle-A novel in vivo model system for nerve degeneration and regeneration studies

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-18

  Pan, BaoHan ^a,c   Grünewald, Benedikt ^b   Nguyen, Thien ^a   Farah, Mohamed ^a   Polydefkis, Michael ^a   McDonald, John ^a,c   Schramm, Lawrence P ^d,e   Toyka, Klaus V ^a,b   Höke, Ahmet ^a,e   Griffin, John W ^a,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous maximus muscle; Cutaneous sensory nerve; Lateral thoracic nerve; Nerve degeneration; Nerve regeneration; Neuromuscular junction

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDE;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LATERAL THORACIC NERVE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR NERVE; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NERVE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NERVE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 84861662150     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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