End-organ reinnervation does not prevent axonal degeneration in nerve allografts following immunosuppression withdrawal

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 163-172

  Midha, Rajiv ^a,b   Munro, Cathrine A ^a   Ang, Lee C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclosporin A; Demyelination; Nerve Transplantation; Peripheral Nerve; Sprouting; Wallerian Degeneration

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; REINNERVATION;

EID: 0032413616     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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