Long term evaluation of experimental median nerve repair by frozen and fresh nerve autografts, allografts and allografts repopulated by autologous Schwann cells

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-24

  Accioli de Vaconcellos, Zulmar Antônio ^a,b,c   Kassar Duchossoy, Lina ^a   Mira, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Hospital Universitario UFSC   (Brazil)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Allografts; Brachial plexus; Frozen nerves; Peripheral nerve; Rats; Schwann cells

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL;

EID: 0032873431     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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