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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 emerging from all transected axons simultaneously innervate antagonistic muscles and cause severe impairment of their coordinated activity. Since it is hardly possible to influence the first major component and improve the guidance of several thousands axons, the authors concentrated on the second major component and tried to reduce the collateral axonal branching.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut I für Anatomie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
Doychin N. Angelov, Wolfram F. Neiss
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Klinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Michael Streppel
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Department of Pathology, Hannover Veterinary School, Hannover, Germany
Konstantin Wewetzer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Axonal Branching and Recovery of Coordinated Muscle Activity after Transsection of the Facial Nerve in Adult Rats
Authors: Doychin N. Angelov, Wolfram F. Neiss, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Michael Streppel, Konstantin Wewetzer
Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29931-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25654-0Published: 27 September 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29931-8Published: 11 December 2005
Series ISSN: 0301-5556
Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 132
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences