Electrical stimulation of embryonic neurons for 1 hour improves axon regeneration and the number of reinnervated muscles that function

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 697-707

  Liu, Yang ^a   Grumbles, Robert M ^a   Thomas, Christine K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Departments of Neurological Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon growth cone initiation; Cell transplantation; Motoneuron survival; Muscle denervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NERVE REGENERATION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879943235     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0b013e318299d376     Document Type: Article

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