title: Electrical stimulation of regenerating nerve and its effect on motor recovery.
abstract: The rate of recovery of motor function, after axonotmesis of the motor nerve innervating the soleus muscle in the rabbit, was evaluated. In a chronic study over a period of 4 weeks, contraction parameters and muscle action potentials were recorded. A group of rabbits, whose soleus nerves were stimulated with 4 pps for 24 h daily, was compared with a control group. The electrically stimulated animals showed a faster improvement in motor function and reached their initial values a week earlier than the controls. Electrical stimulation proved to have a positive effect on the regeneration and motor recovery of nerves.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004576:Electromyography; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009416:Nerve Regeneration; D011817:Rabbits; D013979:Tibial Nerve / Q000502:physiology