Nerve regeneration through a combined autologous conduit (vein plus acellular muscle grafts)

Biomaterials

Volumn 19, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 173-181

  Di Benedetto, Giovanni ^a   Zura, Germano ^a   Mazzucchelli, Roberta ^a   Santinelli, Alfredo ^a   Scarpelli, Marina ^a   Bertani, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acellular muscle; Morphometry; Nerve regeneration; Veins

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE;

MORPHOMETRY; NERVE REGENERATION;

GRAFTS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMORAL VEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLE GRAFT; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERINEURIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME; VEIN GRAFT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUSCLES; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; VEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031841063     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(97)00200-7     Document Type: Article

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