Brief electrical stimulation improves nerve regeneration after delayed repair in Sprague Dawley rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 269, Issue , 2015, Pages 142-153

  Elzinga, Kate ^a   Tyreman, Neil ^a   Ladak, Adil ^a   Savaryn, Bohdan ^a   Olson, Jaret ^a   Gordon, Tessa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brief electrical stimulation; Chronic neuronal axotomy; Chronic Schwann cell denervation; Delayed nerve repair; Peripheral nerve regeneration

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE EXTENSOR MUSCLE; ARTICLE; COMMON PERONEAL NEURON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED NERVE REPAIR; DENERVATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STUMP; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TIBIAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE DENERVATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE DENERVATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84928324925     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.03.022     Document Type: Article

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