Peripheral nerve regeneration in a silicone tube: Effect of collagen sponge prosthesis, laminin, and pyrimidine compound administration

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 428-433

  Ohbayashi, Katsumi ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi K ^a   Awaya, Akira ^b   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Kohga, Hideaki ^a   Nakamura, Masaru ^a   Ohye, Chihiro ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUI CHEMICALS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

collagen sponge; laminin; peripheral nerve regeneration; pyrimidine compound; silicone tube

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; LAMININ; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SILASTIC TUBE;

EID: 0030058471     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.428     Document Type: Article

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