Peripheral Nerves

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2-octyl cyanoacrylate glue for the fixation of continuous peripheral nerve catheters. 
  • A collagen-based nerve guide conduit for peripheral nerve repair: an electrophysiological study of nerve regeneration in rodents and nonhuman primates. 
  • A comparison of ultrasound-guided and landmark-based approaches to saphenous nerve blockade: a prospective, controlled, blinded, crossover trial. 
  • A computer model of electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves in regional anesthesia. 
  • A new continuous catheter delivery system. 
  • A peripheral nerve stimulator for nerve location controlled by the scrubbed anaesthetist. 
  • A regenerative microchannel device for recording multiple single-unit action potentials in awake, ambulatory animals. 
  • A teaching model for training in regional anesthesia--or in peripheral nerve blockade? 
  • ASCENT (Automated Simulations to Characterize Electrical Nerve Thresholds): A pipeline for sample-specific computational modeling of electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves. 
  • Acidic fibroblast growth factor enhances peripheral nerve regeneration in vivo. 
  • Acute vincristine neurotoxicity in the presence of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type I. 
  • Alterations in the development of catecholamine turnover induced by perinatal methadone: differences in central vs. peripheral sympathetic nervous systems. 
  • Altered perceptions after upper and lower extremity blocks: an initial investigation. 
  • Ambulatory continuous peripheral nerve blocks to treat postamputation phantom limb pain: a multicenter, randomized, quadruple-masked, placebo-controlled clinical trial. 
  • An Eclectic Review of the History of Peripheral Nerve Surgery. 
  • Analyzing somatosensory axon projections with the sensory neuron-specific Advillin gene. 
  • Anesthetizing the phantom: peripheral nerve stimulation of a nonexistent extremity. 
  • Ankyrin-binding proteins related to nervous system cell adhesion molecules: candidates to provide transmembrane and intercellular connections in adult brain. 
  • Applied electric fields accelerate the diffusion rate and increase the diffusion distance of DiI in fixed tissue. 
  • Assessing phantom limb sensations... and the library? 
  • Asynchronous axonal firing patterns evoked via continuous subthreshold kilohertz stimulation. 
  • Axotomized mouse retinal ganglion cells containing melanopsin show enhanced survival, but not enhanced axon regrowth into a peripheral nerve graft. 
  • Biochemical and morphological validation of a rodent model of organophosphorus-induced delayed neuropathy. 
  • Cadherin-6 expression transiently delineates specific rhombomeres, other neural tube subdivisions, and neural crest subpopulations in mouse embryos. 
  • Central and peripheral expression of galanin in response to inflammation. 
  • Centrocentral anastomosis with autologous nerve graft treatment of foot and ankle neuromas. 
  • Changes in Brain Resting-state Functional Connectivity Associated with Peripheral Nerve Block: A Pilot Study. 
  • Characteristics of cat skeletal muscles grafted with intact nerves or with anastomosed nerves. 
  • Comparison of coil designs for peripheral magnetic muscle stimulation. 
  • Current devices used for the monitoring of injection pressure during peripheral nerve blocks. 
  • Denatured muscle as a nerve conduit: a functional, morphologic, and electrophysiologic evaluation. 
  • Detailed pathologic characteristics of the primary colorectal tumor independently predict outcome after hepatectomy for metastases. 
  • Detecting the onset of hyper-reflexive bladder contractions from the electrical activity of the pudendal nerve. 
  • Differences between the effect of anisotropic and isotropic laminin and nerve growth factor presenting scaffolds on nerve regeneration across long peripheral nerve gaps. 
  • Direct determination of the lamellar structure of peripheral nerve myelin at moderate resolution (7A). 
  • Double Crush Syndrome of the Upper Extremity. 
  • Dynamics of the sensory response to urethral flow over multiple time scales in rat. 
  • Effect of modulating macrophage phenotype on peripheral nerve repair 
  • Effects of acute hypoxia on neonatal rat brain: regionally selective, long-term alterations in catecholamine levels and turnover. 
  • Effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on neuronal development: selective actions on central and peripheral catecholaminergic pathways. 
  • Evaluation and surgical management of peripheral nerve problems. 
  • Fasciated nerve-muscle explants for in vitro comparison of magnetic and electrical neuromuscular stimulation. 
  • Fascicular anatomy and surgical access of the human pudendal nerve. 
  • Fibers in smaller fascicles have lower activation thresholds with cuff electrodes due to thinner perineurium and smaller cross-sectional area. 
  • Flexor digitorum plane block: A novel approach to median and ulnar nerve blockade. 
  • Frequency-dependent selection of reflexes by pudendal afferents in the cat. 
  • Fully implantable neural recording and stimulation interfaces: Peripheral nerve interface applications. 
  • Hand Sanitizer as an Alternative to Ultrasound Transmission Gel. 
  • High-resolution measurement of electrically-evoked vagus nerve activity in the anesthetized dog. 
  • High-voltage stimulation over the human spinal cord: sources of latency variation. 
  • Highly-compliant, microcable neuroelectrodes fabricated from thin-film gold and PDMS. 
  • Hormonal modulation of the cutaneous initiation of lordosis in infant and adult rats. 
  • Identification of the spinal neural network involved in coordination of micturition in the male cat. 
  • Immediate early gene expression in axotomized and regenerating retinal ganglion cells of the adult rat. 
  • Immunohistochemical characterization of Renaut bodies in superficial digital nerves: further evidence supporting their perineurial cell origin. 
  • Immunohistochemical localization of ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor alpha expression in the rat nervous system. 
  • Impact of multimodal intraoperative monitoring during correction of symptomatic cervical or cervicothoracic kyphosis. 
  • Implantation of Neonatal Skin-Derived Precursor Schwann Cells Improves Outcomes After Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury in Rats. 
  • In patients undergoing neuromodulation for intractable urge incontinence a reduction in 24-hr pad weight after the initial test stimulation best predicts long-term patient satisfaction. 
  • Inflammatory neuropathies: an update on evaluation and treatment. 
  • Innervation density of the base of the palm. 
  • Intravesical capsaicin therapy: a review. 
  • Introduction: peripheral nerve surgery--biology, entrapment, and injuries. 
  • Isaacs' syndrome as a potassium channelopathy of the nerve. 
  • Isolated deficiency of vitamin E with progressive neurologic deterioration. 
  • It is 3 a.m....do you know where your catheter tip is? 
  • Kilohertz waveforms optimized to produce closed-state Na+ channel inactivation eliminate onset response in nerve conduction block. 
  • Knotted peripheral nerve catheter. 
  • Linkage studies in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2: evidence that CMT types 1 and 2 are distinct genetic entities. 
  • Lorentz effect imaging of ionic currents in solution. 
  • Loss of tubulin deglutamylase CCP1 causes infantile-onset neurodegeneration. 
  • MNGIE neuropathy: five cases mimicking chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • MR neurography: diagnostic utility in the surgical treatment of peripheral nerve disorders. 
  • Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) activation increases axonal growth capacity of injured peripheral nerves. 
  • Management of peripheral nerve block catheters at home. 
  • Management of peripheral nerve defects: external fixator-assisted primary neurorrhaphy. 
  • Minimally-invasive electrical stimulation of the pudendal nerve: a pre-clinical study for neural control of the lower urinary tract. 
  • Monitoring during peripheral nerve blockade. 
  • N-acetyl-L-aspartic acid content of human neural tumours and bovine peripheral nervous tissues. 
  • Nerve conduction and ultrasound: will the wedding give birth to new morpho-functional measures? 
  • Nerve ultrasound in CIDP: poly-parameters for polyneuropathies. 
  • Neural network classification of nerve activity recorded in a mixed nerve. 
  • Neuroimmunology in 2017: The central nervous system: privileged by immune connections. 
  • Neuromuscular ultrasound in polyneuropathies and motor neuron disease. 
  • Neuronal GLP1R mediates liraglutide's anorectic but not glucose-lowering effect. 
  • Non-invasive measurement of the input-output properties of peripheral nerve stimulating electrodes. 
  • Noninvasive ankle distraction: relationship between force, magnitude of distraction, and nerve conduction abnormalities. 
  • Noninvasive imaging of peripheral nerves 
  • Observations on the effect of hypotonic solutions on the myelin sheath in the central nervous system. 
  • On the feasibility of imaging peripheral nerves using acoustic radiation force impulse imaging. 
  • On the parameters used in finite element modeling of compound peripheral nerves. 
  • Opposing central and peripheral actions of brain-gut peptides: a basis for regulation of gastric function. 
  • Paravertebral somatic nerve block compared with peripheral nerve blocks for outpatient inguinal herniorrhaphy. 
  • Paresthesias and EEG potentials evoked by stimulation of the dorsal funiculi in man. 
  • Percutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation of the Medial Branch Nerves for the Treatment of Chronic Axial Back Pain in Patients After Radiofrequency Ablation. 
  • Peripheral nerve block techniques for ambulatory surgery. 
  • Peripheral nerve blocks in the management of postoperative pain: challenges and opportunities. 
  • Peripheral nerve electrical stimulation. 
  • Peripheral nerve grafts: the relationship of axonal growth cone and biomechanical properties. 
  • Peripheral nerve injuries during cardiac surgery: risk factors, diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention. 
  • Peripheral nerve regeneration with entubulation repair: comparison of biodegradeable nerve guides versus polyethylene tubes and the effects of a laminin-containing gel. 
  • Peripheral nerve regeneration: an opinion on channels, scaffolds and anisotropy. 
  • Peripheral nerve stimulation in regional anesthesia. 
  • Peripheral neuropathy in mouse hereditary diabetes mellitus. II. Ultrastructural correlates of degenerative and regenerative changes. 
  • Peripheral polyneuropathy, high and low molecular weight IgM, and amyloidosis. 
  • Peripheral sensory nerve defects in apolipoprotein E knockout mice. 
  • Piezoelectric vibrating needle and catheter for enhancing ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve blocks. 
  • Platelet-rich plasma and peripheral nerve regeneration: a potential contraindication to its use after tumor excision. 
  • Polyethylene glycol fusion repair prevents reinnervation accuracy in rat peripheral nerve. 
  • Polysialic acid expression is not necessary for motor neuron target selectivity. 
  • Postoperative Pain Mediates the Association Between Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Postoperative Sleep Following Lower Extremity Arthroplasty. 
  • Quantitative comparisons of block thresholds and onset responses for charge-balanced kilohertz frequency waveforms. 
  • RARP in high-risk prostate cancer: use of multi-parametric MRI and nerve sparing techniques. 
  • Rat brain amines, blood histamine and glucose levels in relationship to circadian changes in sleep induced by pentobarbitone sodium. 
  • Regenerative scaffold electrodes for peripheral nerve interfacing. 
  • Regional anesthesia: functional implications beyond the anesthetized nerve. 
  • Reporting the results of diagnostic neuromuscular ultrasound: an educational report. 
  • Serum dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH) activity and blood pressure response of rat strains to shock-induced fighting. 
  • Simple Neurectomy Versus Neurectomy With Intramuscular Implantation for Interdigital Neuroma: A Comparative Study. 
  • Somatic innervation of the feline lower urinary tract. 
  • Some observations on fibrillations and positive sharp waves. 
  • Sox2 expression in Schwann cells inhibits myelination in vivo and induces influx of macrophages to the nerve. 
  • Spatially restricted patterns of expression of the homeobox-containing gene Hox 2.1. during mouse embryogenesis. 
  • Sprouting of noradrenergic fibers in hippocampus after medial septal lesions: contributions of the central and peripheral nervous systems. 
  • Stability of the input-output properties of chronically implanted multiple contact nerve cuff stimulating electrodes. 
  • Subcapsular sinus macrophages prevent CNS invasion on peripheral infection with a neurotropic virus. 
  • Sustained Adrenergic Signaling Promotes Intratumoral Innervation through BDNF Induction. 
  • The International Society of Peripheral Neurophysiological Imaging: pioneering innovation in a multidisciplinary context. 
  • The Role of Imaging for Disorders of Peripheral Nerve. 
  • The appropriate use of neurostimulation of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system for the treatment of chronic pain and ischemic diseases: the Neuromodulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee. 
  • The cyclic AMP response element directs tyrosine hydroxylase expression in catecholaminergic central and peripheral nervous system cell lines from transgenic mice. 
  • The functional recovery of peripheral nerves following defined acute crush injuries. 
  • The normal and neoplastic perineurium: a review. 
  • The place of microsurgery in hand surgery. 
  • The role of aligned polymer fiber-based constructs in the bridging of long peripheral nerve gaps. 
  • The role of peripheral nerve stimulation in the era of ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia. 
  • The specificity of motor neurone regeneration (preferential reinnervation). 
  • Thermoregulatory control after upper extremity replantation. 
  • Thin-film enhanced nerve guidance channels for peripheral nerve repair. 
  • Timing and appropriate use of electrodiagnostic studies. 
  • ULTRASOUND IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: A REVIEW. 
  • Ultrasound as the first choice for peripheral nerve imaging? 
  • Ultrasound diagnosis of bony nerve entrapment: case series and literature review. 
  • Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve stimulator placement in two soldiers with acute battlefield neuropathic pain. 
  • Unbiased immune profiling reveals a natural killer cell-peripheral nerve axis in fibromyalgia. 
  • Use of the anterior branch of the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve as a graft for the repair of defects of the digital nerve. 
  • What happens in lead poisoning? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Hogan, Brigid L. M., Research Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology
  • Nielsen, Karen Cristina, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Ambulatory
  • Smith, Brandon Wayne, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery