Sciatic Nerve Regeneration through Venous or Nervous Grafts in the Rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 236-246

  Foidart Dessalle, M ^a   Dubuisson, A ^a   Lejeune, A ^a   Severyns, A ^a   Manassis, Y ^a   Delree, P ^b   Crielaard, J M ^a   Bassleer, R ^a   Lejeune, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HETEROTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INJURY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION; WALKING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; WALKING;

EID: 0031265976     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6542     Document Type: Article

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