title: The evaluation of the influence of a high injury to brachial plexus elements on the condition of neurons of the anterior horns of the spinal cord--experimental research.
abstract: The aim of the experimental research was to assess the impact of a high damage to brachial plexus elements on the condition of neurons of spinal cord anterior horns. The research was conducted on 12 rabbits, in which the ventral branches of spinal nerves C5-Th1 were severed. During dissections carried out 7, 30, 60, 180 days after the operation the cervicothoracic segment of the spinal cord was collected. The material was subjected to microscopic histological and ultrastructural examinations, which showed that where brachial plexus elements had been severed some of the neurons of spinal cord anterior horns had died and that the process intensity depended on the time that had passed after the injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of General and Oncology Surgery, Medical University of Wrocław, Borowska 213, 50-556 Wrocław, Poland. chiruraz@churaz.am.wroc.pl
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knakiewicz
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rutowski
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gosk
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuryszko
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kielan
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rudno-Rudzińska
authors.forename: Michał
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knakiewicz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000870:Anterior Horn Cells / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D001253:Astrocytes / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001917:Brachial Plexus / Q000293:injuries*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009410:Nerve Degeneration / Q000473:pathology*; D011817:Rabbits; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D013997:Time Factors