Robert R. Myers
University of California, San Diego
169 Papers
2.6K Citations
Robert R. Myers is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sciatic nerve & Nerve injury. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 169 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert R. Myers include Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis & Fukushima Medical University.
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Papers
An in vitro mechanical and histological study of acute stretching on rabbit tibial nerve
Björn Rydevik,Michael K. Kwan,Robert R. Myers,Richard A. Brown,K. J. Triggs,Savio L. C. Woo,Steven R. Garfin +6 more
TL;DR: Histological analysis of the stretched nerves showed multiple ruptures of perineurial sheaths when compared to controls, and the results show that the rabbit tibial nerves have an in situ strain of 11.0 + 1.5% and exhibit a nonlinear stress‐strain relationship, which becomes linear up to failure.
Effects of local anesthesia on nerve blood flow: studies using lidocaine with and without epinephrine
Robert R. Myers,Heidi M. Heckman +1 more
TL;DR: Nerve blood flow was significantly depressed for all of the solutions tested except saline, and epinephrine by itself significantly reduced nerve blood flow; when added to local anesthetic solutions, it reduced nerveBlood flow to a greater extent than the reduction caused by anesthetics alone.
Visual and auditory evoked responses during penicillin induced generalized spike and wave activity in cats
TL;DR: In 13 healthy adult cats chronically implanted with parasagittal electrodes applied to the dural surface, curarization was performed and baseline recordings of the visual evoked response (VER), auditory evokedresponse (AER) and brainstem auditory evokes response (BAER) were made.
Schwann cells produce tumor necrosis factor alpha: expression in injured and non-injured nerves.
R. Wagner,Robert R. Myers +1 more
TL;DR: These observations are the first to demonstrate the production of this proinflammatory cytokine by peripheral nerve glia, and further support other studies from this laboratory suggesting that tumor necrosis factor has a pathogenic role in nerve injury.
Degeneration and regeneration of the peripheral nervous system: from Augustus Waller's observations to neuroinflammation.
TL;DR: Similarities and differences between the PNS and CNS in terms of inflammation and microglial activation after nerve injury are discussed, and point towards progress in understanding the failure of nerve fiber regeneration in the CNS.