Different functional reorganization of motor cortex after transfer of the contralateral C7 to different recipient nerves in young rats with total brachial plexus root avulsion

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 531, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 188-192

  Pan, Feng ^a,b   Wei, Hai Feng ^c   Chen, Liang ^a,b   Gu, Yu Dong ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Key Laboratory of Peripheral Nerve and Microsurgery   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus injuries; Contralateral C7 transfer; Recipient nerves; Synchronous motions; Transhemispheric functional reorganization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERE; HINDLIMB; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE ROOT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRANSFER; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 84870404373     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.10.047     Document Type: Article

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