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neurapraxia

[¦nu̇r·ə′prak·sē·ə]
(medicine)
Injury to a nerve in which there is localized degeneration of the myelin sheath with transient nerve block.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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All the rats underwent 14 days pre-treatment prior to sciatic nerve injury. The oral administration was continued for the next 28 days after injury.
The current study was planned to use EDX evaluation to find out the commonest pattern and frequent aetiology as well as document the neurophysiological findings of nerve injury in patients with wrist drop.
In our opinion, it is necessary to establish the dose of SCs to have a therapeutic effect following nerve injury.
Long.term follow-up evaluation of cold sensitivity following nerve injury. J Hand Surg Am 1996;21:1078-85.
Peripheral nerve injury is a common disease and has been a focus in neuroscience researches.
Sciatic nerve injury is a painful injury from your lower back into the back or side or your legs.
"Removal of these dysfunctional components is very important; when they accumulate, they become toxic and contribute to muscle cell impairment and death." Muscle weakness or wasting is a typical muscle dysfunction condition that affects the elderly or individuals suffering from sciatic nerve injury, something usually seen in bedridden patients or workers who spend long hours sitting.
[USA], Sep 25 (ANI): According to a new study, pregabalin is not effective in controlling the chronic pain that sometimes develops following traumatic nerve injury.
"He has remained with us for his rehabilitation work and the thing with a nerve injury like this is for Rhun to take his time because it could take a further six weeks or six months to sort out.
(SCM) recently presented positive results of a study on using human muscle progenitor cells that ectopically express neurotrophic factors to enhance neuronal regeneration in a sciatic nerve injury mouse model.
The study data show that genetically-modified rats and human muscle progenitor cells with four different neurotrophic factors (MPCNTFs) were found to synergistically alleviate both motoric and sensory deficits of sciatic nerve injury (SNI), a type of peripheral nerve injury.
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