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

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Authors:
  1. Doychin N. Angelov

    1. Institut I für Anatomie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

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  2. Wolfram F. Neiss

    1. Institut I für Anatomie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

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  3. Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

    1. Klinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

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  4. Michael Streppel

    1. Klinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

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  5. Konstantin Wewetzer

    1. Department of Pathology, Hannover Veterinary School, Hannover, Germany

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 180)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Outline of the General Neurobiological Problem

    Pages 1-14

  3. Materials and Methods: Experimental Sets

    Pages 14-37

  4. Results

    Pages 37-91

  5. Discussion

    Pages 91-108

  6. Summary

    Pages 108-108

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 109-131
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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

  • Institut I für Anatomie, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

    Doychin N. Angelov, Wolfram F. Neiss

  • Klinik für Hals-, Nasen- und Ohrenheilkunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

    Orlando Guntinas-Lichius, Michael Streppel

  • 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

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