Vagus nerve stimulation during rehabilitative training improves functional recovery after intracerebral hemorrhage

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3097-3100

  Hays, Seth A ^a,b   Khodaparast, Navid ^b   Hulsey, Daniel R ^b   Ruiz, Andrea ^b   Sloan, Andrew M ^a   Rennaker, Robert L ^a,b   Kilgard, Michael P ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebral hemorrhage; vagal nerve stimulation; vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIOPEPTIDASE A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REHABILITATION CARE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84922480273     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006654     Document Type: Article

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