Microsurgical technique for concurrent cervical corpectomy and ventral phrenic nerve access in the rat

The phrenic nerve is useful to record as a motor output in studies investigating neural control of respiration. It may be accessed via dorsal or ventral microsurgical approaches. Since such studies frequently involve concurrent access to the spinal cord, the two approaches may be alternatively used,...

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Main Author: Michael G.Z. Ghali, MD, PhD, MS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:MethodsX
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016118301353