Deficient functional recovery after facial nerve crush in rats is associated with restricted rearrangements of synaptic terminals in the facial nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 307-318

  Hundeshagen, G ^a   Szameit, K ^a   Thieme, H ^a   Finkensieper, M ^a   Angelov, D N ^b   Guntinas Lichius, O ^a   Irintchev, A ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholinergic synapses; Microglia; Peripheral nerve regeneration; Synaptic plasticity; Vesicular glutamate transporter 2; Whisking

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLIOSIS; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FACIAL NERVE; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FACIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84880627472     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.06.019     Document Type: Article

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