Axonal Branching and Recovery of Coordinated Muscle Activity After Transsection of the Facial Nerve in Adult Rats

by Doychin N. Angelov, D.N. Angelov, K. Wewetzer, et al.

Facial nerve surgery inevitably leads to partial pareses, abnormally associated movements and pathologically altered reflexes. The reason for this "post-paralytic syndrome" is the misdirected reinnervation of targets, which consists of two major components. First, due to malfunctioning axonal guidance, a muscle gets reinnervated by a "foreign" axon, that has been misrouted along a "wrong" fascicle. Second, the supernumerary collateral branches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540256547
• ISBN13: 9783540256540
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"