Functional recordings from awake, behaving rodents through a microchannel based regenerative neural interface

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gore, Russell K ^a,b   Choi, Yoonsu ^c   Bellamkonda, Ravi ^b   English, Arthur ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Microchannels; Nerve injury; Nerve regeneration; Neural interface; Neuroprosthesis; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAMMALS; MUSCLE; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROSURGERY; PROSTHETICS; RATS; REPAIR;

NERVE INJURIES; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL INTERFACES; NEURO-PROSTHESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

MICROCHANNELS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WAKEFULNESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANIMAL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; LEWIS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84921738880     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/12/1/016017     Document Type: Article

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