Assessment of in vivo spinal cord conduction velocity in rats in an experimental model of ischemic spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 616-622

  Basoglu, H ^a   Kurtoglu, T ^a   Cetin, N K ^a   Bilgin, M D ^a   Kiylioglu, N ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

conduction velocity; electromyography; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NEEDLE ELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD CONDUCTION VELOCITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84881481562     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2013.40     Document Type: Article

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