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Does vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitative training improve recovery of forelimb function in rats with chronic ischemic stroke?
Does vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitative training improve recovery of forelimb function in rats with chronic ischemic stroke?
Vagus nerve stimulation combined with rehabilitative training improves motor recovery in a rat model of chronic ischemic stroke.
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Hypothesis-generating for VNS in chronic stroke rehab; leaves open translation to humans.
VNS paired with rehabilitative training confers significantly greater recovery of forelimb function after chronic ischemic stroke in rats.
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Khodaparast et al. (2015) studied this question.
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