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Structure of sural nerve

Known as: Sural Nerves, nerve sural, NERVE, SURAL 
A peripheral nerve that runs close to the small saphenous vein. It supplies innervation to the skin of the lower back of the leg and sends a branch… 
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Blood supply aspectsCDISC SEND Biospecimens TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyLateral dorsal cutaneous branch of sural nerve

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Left sural nerve

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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Thalidomide neuropathy in patients treated for metastatic prostate cancer
We prospectively evaluated thalidomide‐induced neuropathy using electrodiagnostic studies. Sixty‐seven men with metastatic… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Objective evidence of decreased pain perception in normotensives at risk for hypertension
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Calcium potentials and tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium potentials in unmyelinated C fibres of biopsied human sural nerve
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Reflex changes in muscle spindle discharge during a voluntary contraction.
1. This study was undertaken to determine whether low-threshold cutaneous and muscle afferents from mechanoreceptors in the foot… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Reflex influences on muscle spindle activity in relaxed human leg muscles.
The study was designed to determine whether low-threshold cutaneous and muscle afferents from the foot reflexly activate gamma… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Sensory, Motor, and Autonomic Neuropathy in Patients with Multiple Symmetric Lipomatosis
Clinical evaluation of 33 male patients affected by multiple symmetric lipomatosis has revealed a previously unreported high… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Effects of capsaicin applied to a peripheral nerve on the responses of primate spinothalamic tract cells
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Inhibition of primate spinothalamic tract neurons by stimulation in periaqueductal gray or adjacent midbrain reticular formation.
Recordings were made from spinothalamic tract (STT) cells in the lumbosacral enlargement of anesthetized monkeys. The cells were… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Sprouting of active nerve terminals in partially inactive muscles of the rat.
1. Certain muscles in the hind foot of rats were partially paralysed by applying tetrodotoxin to part of their motor innervation… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
The sensitization of high threshold mechanoreceptors with myelinated axons by repeated heating.
1. Seventy high threshold mechanoreceptor units (HTMs) with myelinated axons were isolated from the sural nerves of cats and… 
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