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Study design: Spinal cord evoked potentials and peripheral nerve evoked potentials after spinal cord stimulation were recorded under acute spinal cord compression in 19 cats.
Objectives: To investigate the effects of acute compression upon grey matter and white matter by comparing both potentials.
Methods: We compared peripheral nerve evoked potentials, recorded at the biceps brachii branch of the musculocutaneous nerve, with descending spinal cord evoked potentials, recorded from the lumbar spinal cord, by stimulation to the C2 level, under compression of the C6 segment.
Results: The amplitude of both potentials decreased with increased compression. The second wave of peripheral nerve evoked potentials, which are motor fibre action potentials, decreased sooner than those of the spinal cord evoked potentials.
Conclusion: These findings indicate that peripheral nerve evoked potentials are sensitive to acute damage of the segmented compression. This suggests that grey matter is more vulnerable to compression than white matter.
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Arai, M., Goto, T., Seichi, A. et al. Comparison of spinal cord evoked potentials and peripheral nerve evoked potentials by electric stimulation of the spinal cord under acute spinal cord compression in cats. Spinal Cord 38, 403–408 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.sc.3101034
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