Electrical stimulation promotes regeneration of defective peripheral nerves after delayed repair intervals lasting under one month

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Chungui ^a   Kou, Yuhui ^a   Zhang, Peixun ^a   Han, Na ^a   Yin, Xiaofeng ^a   Deng, Jiuxu ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Jiang, Baoguo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LATENT PERIOD; MASSON STAINING; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE STUMP; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STAINING; TRKB GENE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; WOUND HEALING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SPINAL CORD; STAINING AND LABELING; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84907459333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105045     Document Type: Article

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