Stimulation of trigeminal afferents improves motor recovery after facial nerve injury: Functional, electrophysiological and morphological proofs

Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology

Volumn 213, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-125

  Skouras, Emmanouil ^a   Pavlov, Stoyan ^b   Bendella, Habib ^a   Angelov, Doychin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FACE MUSCLE; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; GROWTH CONE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRISSA; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; GROWTH CONES; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84873553337     PISSN: 03015556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33311-8_1     Document Type: Article

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