Inside-out vs. standard vein graft to repair a sensory nerve in rats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-232

  Ferrari, Fábio ^a   De Rodrigues, Antonio Castro ^a   Malvezzi, Cristiane Karina ^a   Silva, Maeli Dal Pai ^a   Padovani, Carlos Roberto ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nerve regeneration; Rat; Vein graft

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PROLIFERATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAPHENOUS NERVE; TECHNIQUE; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN WALL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032702841     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(19991101)256:3<227::AID-AR2>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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