Motor Nerve Conduction Velocity in Experimental Portal-Systemic Shunting
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in European Neurology
- Vol. 17 (5) , 292-295
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000114961
Abstract
The influence of portal-systemic shunting on motor nerve conduction velocity (MCV) was analyzed in rats with portacaval shunts. At 3 and 8 wk after the shunting there was a marked but transient fall in MCV. At 16 wk the MCV had almost normalized, despite substained portal-systemic shunting. The results favor hepatocellular failure as the more important pathophysiological mechanism in hepatic neuropathy.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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