Magnesium administration provokes motor unit survival, after sciatic nerve injury in neonatal rats

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Gougoulias, N ^a   Hatzisotiriou, A ^b   Kapoukranidou, D ^c   Albani, M ^c  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXOTOMY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS, FAST-TWITCH; MUSCLE FIBERS, SLOW-TWITCH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 8844243270     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-5-33     Document Type: Article

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