Regeneration of myelinated fiber after crush injury is retarded in sciatic nerves of mutant Japanese quails deficient in neurofilaments

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 467-472

  Jiang, Xin Mei ^a   Zhao, Jie Xu ^a   Ohnishi, Akio ^a   Itakura, Chitoshi ^b   Mizutani, Makoto ^c   Yamamoto, Tatsunori ^a   Murai, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ikeda, Masato ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Mutant quail; Nerve regeneration; Neurofilament deficiency; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUTANT; MYELINATED NERVE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MUTATION; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; QUAIL; REGENERATION; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0029907505     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050548     Document Type: Article

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