Strategies to promote peripheral nerve regeneration: electrical stimulation and/or exercise

T Gordon, AW English - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing the regeneration of axons is often considered to be a therapeutic target for
improving functional recovery after peripheral nerve injury. In this review, the evidence for the …

Compartmentalization of muscles and their motor nuclei: the partitioning hypothesis

AW English, SL Wolf, RL Segal - Physical therapy, 1993 - academic.oup.com
… the ankle extensor muscles, English and Letbetterlo described these elements as the … ,
English AW; unpublished observations).1 Using the method of glycogen depletion, English and …

[HTML][HTML] The role of BDNF in peripheral nerve regeneration: activity-dependent treatments and Val66Met

CE McGregor, AW English - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… In 2008, English and colleagues tested the efficacy of interval training (short high-speed
sprints followed by periods of rest) in enhancing regeneration as a model that resembles how …

Electrical stimulation promotes peripheral axon regeneration by enhanced neuronal neurotrophin signaling

AW English, G Schwartz, W Meador… - Developmental …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical stimulation of cut peripheral nerves at the time of their surgical repair results in an
enhancement of axon regeneration. Regeneration of axons through nerve allografts was …

Treadmill training promotes axon regeneration in injured peripheral nerves

MJ Sabatier, N Redmon, G Schwartz, AW English - Experimental neurology, 2008 - Elsevier
Physical activity after spinal cord injury promotes improvements in motor function, but its effects
following peripheral nerve injury are less clear. Although axons in peripheral nerves are …

Cooperative roles of BDNF expression in neurons and Schwann cells are modulated by exercise to facilitate nerve regeneration

…, KS Lau, GJ Bassell, AW English - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
After peripheral nerve injury, neurotrophins play a key role in the regeneration of damaged
axons that can be augmented by exercise, although the distinct roles played by neurons and …

Heterogeneity among muscle precursor cells in adult skeletal muscles with differing regenerative capacities

…, TA Rando, M Cheong, AW English… - … dynamics: an official …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Skeletal muscle has a remarkable capacity to regenerate after injury, although studies of
muscle regeneration have heretofore been limited almost exclusively to limb musculature. …

Thin-film enhanced nerve guidance channels for peripheral nerve repair

IP Clements, Y Kim, AW English, X Lu, A Chung… - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
It has been demonstrated that nerve guidance channels containing stacked thin-films of aligned
poly(acrylonitrile-co-methylacrylate) fibers support peripheral nerve regeneration across …

[HTML][HTML] Axonal G3BP1 stress granule protein limits axonal mRNA translation and nerve regeneration

…, CJ Woolf, M Fainzilber, AW English… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Critical functions of intra-axonally synthesized proteins are thought to depend on regulated
recruitment of mRNA from storage depots in axons. Here we show that axotomy of …

Comparison of methods to detect rare and cryptic species: a case study using the red fox (Vulpes vulpes)

…, N Mooney, MP Piggott, AW English - Wildlife …, 2009 - CSIRO Publishing
Choosing the appropriate method to detect and monitor wildlife species is difficult if the
species is rare or cryptic in appearance or behaviour. We evaluated the effectiveness of the …