Delaying the onset of treadmill exercise following peripheral nerve injury has different effects on axon regeneration and motoneuron synaptic plasticity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2390-2399

  Brandt, Jaclyn ^a   Evans, Jonathan T ^a   Mildenhall, Taylor ^a   Mulligan, Amanda ^a   Konieczny, Aimee ^a   Rose, Samuel J ^a   English, Arthur W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Nerve injury; Regeneration; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; LEWIS RAT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; THERAPEUTIC INDEX; TIBIAL NERVE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ANIMAL; AXON; ERGOMETRY; KINESIOTHERAPY; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84982068042     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00892.2014     Document Type: Article

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