Sciatic Nerve

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 4-Aminopyridine attenuates muscle atrophy after sciatic nerve crush injury in mice. 
  • A collagen-based nerve guide conduit for peripheral nerve repair: an electrophysiological study of nerve regeneration in rodents and nonhuman primates. 
  • A genetically engineered thermally responsive sustained release curcumin depot to treat neuroinflammation. 
  • A practical guide to commonly performed ultrasound-guided peripheral-nerve blocks. 
  • A simple technique for augmentation of axonal ingrowth into chondroitinase-treated acellular nerve grafts using nerve growth factor. 
  • A wireless millimetric magnetoelectric implant for the endovascular stimulation of peripheral nerves. 
  • Acetyl-L-carnitine deficiency as a cause of altered nerve myo-inositol content, Na,K-ATPase activity, and motor conduction velocity in the streptozotocin-diabetic rat. 
  • Acidic fibroblast growth factor enhances peripheral nerve regeneration in vivo. 
  • Afferent sensory feedback for lower extremity prosthesis. 
  • Altered expression of pp60c-src induced by peripheral nerve injury. 
  • Ambulatory surgery for multi-ligament knee reconstruction with continuous dual catheter peripheral nerve blockade. 
  • An apolipoprotein E-mimetic stimulates axonal regeneration and remyelination after peripheral nerve injury. 
  • An improved method of recording rat tracks for measurement of the sciatic functional index of de Medinaceli. 
  • An in vivo model to quantify motor and sensory peripheral nerve regeneration using bioresorbable nerve guide tubes. 
  • An isoform of ankyrin is localized at nodes of Ranvier in myelinated axons of central and peripheral nerves. 
  • An x-ray study of the condensed and separated states of sciatic nerve myelin. 
  • An x-ray study of the effect of enzymes on frog sciatic nerve myelin. 
  • Anesthetizing the phantom: peripheral nerve stimulation of a nonexistent extremity. 
  • Articulating external fixation to overcome nerve gaps in lower extremity trauma. 
  • Assessment of postoperative analgesia after application of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia for surgery in a swine femoral fracture model. 
  • Axotomy-induced regulation of c-Jun expression in regenerating rat retinal ganglion cells. 
  • CD9 plays a role in Schwann cell migration in vitro. 
  • Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV in dorsal root ganglion: colocalization with peptides, axonal transport and effect of axotomy. 
  • Ciliary neurotrophic factor is an axogenesis factor for retinal ganglion cells. 
  • Combined lumbar-plexus and sciatic-nerve blocks: an analysis of plasma ropivacaine concentrations. 
  • Common mononeuropathies. 
  • Compression injury of the sciatic nerve during a prolonged surgical procedure in a diabetic patient. 
  • Cyclophosphamide treatment used to manipulate the immune response for the production of monoclonal antibodies. 
  • Denatured muscle as a nerve conduit: a functional, morphologic, and electrophysiologic evaluation. 
  • Determination of acrylamide in rat serum and sciatic nerve by gas chromatography-electron-capture detection. 
  • Direct determination of the electron density profile of nerve myelin. 
  • Direct determination of the lamellar structure of peripheral nerve myelin at low resolution (17 A). 
  • Direct determination of the lamellar structure of peripheral nerve myelin at moderate resolution (7A). 
  • Direct measurement of fast axonal organelle transport in the sciatic nerve of rats treated with acrylamide. 
  • Disruption of ErbB receptor signaling in adult non-myelinating Schwann cells causes progressive sensory loss. 
  • Distinct ankyrin isoforms at neuron cell bodies and nodes of Ranvier resolved using erythrocyte ankyrin-deficient mice. 
  • Dopamine mediates vagal modulation of the immune system by electroacupuncture. 
  • Effect of administration of high dose intrathecal clonidine or morphine prior to sciatic nerve section on c-Fos expression in rat lumbar spinal cord. 
  • Efficiency analysis of waveform shape for electrical excitation of nerve fibers. 
  • Energy-efficient waveform shapes for neural stimulation revealed with a genetic algorithm. 
  • Entubulation repair with protein additives increases the maximum nerve gap distance successfully bridged with tubular prostheses. 
  • Expression of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide in dorsal root ganglia following axotomy: time course and coexistence. 
  • Femoral artery block (FAB) attenuates thigh tourniquet-induced hypertension: a prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. 
  • First successful lower-extremity transplantation: technique and functional result. 
  • Functional effects of lymphotoxin on crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Gene and protein expressions of nitric oxide synthases in ischemia-reperfused peripheral nerve of the rat. 
  • Glycogen debranching enzyme is associated with rat skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum. 
  • Hemangiopericytoma of the sciatic nerve. Case report. 
  • Hydropneumodissection-Assisted Cryoablation of Recurrent Sarcoma Adjacent to the Sciatic Nerve as a Limb-Sparing Alternative to Hindquarter Amputation. 
  • Identification of a peripheral nerve neurite growth-promoting activity by development and use of an in vitro bioassay. 
  • Immunoengineering nerve repair. 
  • Impairment of the blood-nerve and blood-brain barriers in apolipoprotein e knockout mice. 
  • Improved nerve regeneration through piezoelectric vinylidenefluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer guidance channels. 
  • Increased rate of peripheral nerve regeneration using bioresorbable nerve guides and a laminin-containing gel. 
  • Infrared laser diode irradiation has no behavioral or biochemical effect on pain in the sciatic nerve ligation-induced mononeuropathy in rat. 
  • Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase promotes recovery of motor function in rats after sciatic nerve ischemia and reperfusion. 
  • Interleukin-1 beta promotes functional recovery of crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Intraneural injection with low-current stimulation during popliteal sciatic nerve block. 
  • Intrathecal ketorolac tromethamine produces analgesia after chronic constriction injury of sciatic nerve in rat. 
  • Isolated sciatic nerve entrapment by ectopic bone after femoral head fracture-dislocation. 
  • Knotted peripheral nerve catheter. 
  • Kv3.1b is a novel component of CNS nodes. 
  • Liposomal Bupivacaine Versus Continuous Popliteal Sciatic Nerve Block in Total Ankle Arthroplasty. 
  • Local anesthetic activity and acute toxicity of N-heptyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-6-methoxy-1-naphthylamine methanesulfonate. 
  • Local anesthetic activity and acute toxicity of N-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1- and 2-naphthylamines. 
  • Locally synthesized phosphatidylcholine, but not protein, undergoes rapid retrograde axonal transport in the rat sciatic nerve. 
  • Lower limb blocks following general anaesthesia. 
  • Lumbar plexus and sciatic nerve block for knee arthroplasty: comparison of ropivacaine and bupivacaine. 
  • Major ambulatory surgery with continuous regional anesthesia and a disposable infusion pump. 
  • Merosin promotes neurite growth and Schwann cell migration in vitro and nerve regeneration in vivo: evidence using an antibody to merosin, ARM-1. 
  • Metabolic profiling of muscle contraction in lean compared with obese rodents. 
  • Microchannel-based regenerative scaffold for chronic peripheral nerve interfacing in amputees. 
  • Morphogenesis of the node of Ranvier: co-clusters of ankyrin and ankyrin-binding integral proteins define early developmental intermediates. 
  • Nerve conduction blockade in the sciatic nerve prevents but does not reverse the activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in spinal microglia in the rat spared nerve injury model. 
  • Nerve excitation using an amplitude-modulated signal with kilohertz-frequency carrier and non-zero offset. 
  • Nerve growth factor and its low-affinity receptor promote Schwann cell migration. 
  • Netrin-1 and peripheral nerve regeneration in the adult rat. 
  • Neural and connective tissue response to long-term implantation of multiple contact nerve cuff electrodes 
  • Neurite outgrowth is enhanced by anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibodies to the ganglioside GM1. 
  • Neuropeptide Y and galanin binding sites in rat and monkey lumbar dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord and effect of peripheral axotomy. 
  • Neurotoxicity of ethyl methacrylate in rats. 
  • New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS. 
  • Non-invasive measurement of the input-output properties of peripheral nerve stimulating electrodes. 
  • Nontraumatic mononeuropathies: a review. 
  • Orthopedic surgery modulates neuropeptides and BDNF expression at the spinal and hippocampal levels. 
  • Penicillin neuropathy. 
  • Peripheral nerve block techniques for ambulatory surgery. 
  • Peripheral nerve grafts: the relationship of axonal growth cone and biomechanical properties. 
  • Peripheral nerve regeneration with entubulation repair: comparison of biodegradeable nerve guides versus polyethylene tubes and the effects of a laminin-containing gel. 
  • Peripheral nerve repair with bioresorbable prosthesis. 
  • Point sources of Schwann cells result in growth into a nerve entubulation repair site in the absence of axons: effects of freeze-thawing. 
  • Potentiation of organophosphorus-induced delayed neurotoxicity by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. 
  • Preliminary study of ergonomic behavior during simulated ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia using a head-mounted display. 
  • Profound analgesia is associated with a truncated peptide resulting from tissue specific alternative splicing of DRG CA8-204 regulated by an exon-level cis-eQTL. 
  • Protective effect of 21-aminosteroid pretreatment in peripheral nerve low-load crush injury in mature and immature rats. 
  • Quantification of recruitment properties of multiple contact cuff electrodes. 
  • Recombinant human glial growth factor 2 (rhGGF2) improves functional recovery of crushed peripheral nerve (a double-blind study). 
  • Recovery following stretch injury to the sciatic nerve of the rat: an in vivo study. 
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: successful treatment by transcutaneous nerve stimulation. 
  • Restoration of hamstring function following sciatic nerve resection at the greater sciatic foramen with reconstruction involving acellular nerve allograft and vascularized sural nerve autograft: A case report. 
  • Retrograde axonal transport of locally synthesized phosphoinositides in the rat sciatic nerve. 
  • Reverse end-to-side neurotization. 
  • Reversing nerve-graft polarity in a rat model: the effect on function. 
  • Rhabdomyolysis following total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Schwann cell vulnerability to demyelination is associated with internodal length in tellurium neuropathy. 
  • Selective control of muscle activation with a multipolar nerve cuff electrode. 
  • Severe phantom leg pain in an amputee after lumbar plexus block. 
  • Spinal sensory projection neuron responses to spinal cord stimulation are mediated by circuits beyond gate control. 
  • Stability of the input-output properties of chronically implanted multiple contact nerve cuff stimulating electrodes. 
  • Substrate-bound nerve growth factor promotes neurite growth in peripheral nerve. 
  • Surgical exposure of the sciatic nerve in the gluteal region: anatomic and historical comparison of two approaches. 
  • Syncoilin modulates peripherin filament networks and is necessary for large-calibre motor neurons. 
  • The Achilles Functional Index. 
  • The choice between the positive and negative structures for nerve myelin. 
  • The effect of age on sciatic nerve block duration. 
  • The effect of stimulating versus conventional perineural catheters on postoperative analgesia following ultrasound-guided femoral nerve localization. 
  • The effect of stimulus pulse duration on selectivity of neural stimulation. 
  • The effects of exogenous nitric oxide donor on motor functional recovery of reperfused peripheral nerve. 
  • The effects of periurethral muscle-derived stem cell injection on leak point pressure in a rat model of stress urinary incontinence. 
  • The functional recovery of peripheral nerves following defined acute crush injuries. 
  • The histological effect of barrier vein wrapping of peripheral nerves. 
  • The impact of dose rate on the neurotoxicity of acrylamide: the interaction of administered dose, target tissue concentrations, tissue damage, and functional effects. 
  • The influence of magnitude and duration of crush load on functional recovery of the peripheral nerve. 
  • The lamellar structure of nerve myelin after rehydration. 
  • The pattern of expression of the voltage-gated sodium channels Na(v)1.8 and Na(v)1.9 does not change in uninjured primary sensory neurons in experimental neuropathic pain models. 
  • The relationship of functional return to varying methods of nerve repair. 
  • The safe zones for endoscopic proximal hamstring repair: a cadaveric assessment of standard portal placement and their relationship to major neurovascular structures. 
  • Theoretical analysis of lipid transport in sciatic nerve. 
  • Tissue-engineered scaffolds are effective alternatives to autografts for bridging peripheral nerve gaps. 
  • Topical capsaicin treatment suppresses formalin-induced fos expression in rat spinal cord. 
  • Tumor necrosis factor promotes motor functional recovery in crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Upregulation of spinal cannabinoid-1-receptors following nerve injury enhances the effects of Win 55,212-2 on neuropathic pain behaviors in rats. 
  • Variability in determination of point of needle insertion in peripheral nerve blocks: a comparison of experienced and inexperienced anaesthetists. 
  • Veins along the course of the sciatic nerve. 
  • [Analgesic effect of intrathecal injection of Herpes simplex virus type I amplicon vector-mediated human preproenkephalin gene on chronic neuropathic pain: experiment with rats]. 
  • beta-Endorphin-containing memory-cells and mu-opioid receptors undergo transport to peripheral inflamed tissue. 
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  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute