Motoneurons of the injured spinal cord of the adult dog can grow lengthy axons into an autologous peripheral nerve graft. A retrograde axonal tracing study

Spinal Cord

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 320-325

  Moissonnier, P ^a   Reviron, T ^a   Ye, J H ^b   Horvat, J C ^b  

^a ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

axonal regeneration; dog; peripheral nerve grafting; retrograde axonal tracing; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0029897620     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1996.59     Document Type: Article

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