Improvement of regeneration with predegenerated nerve transplants in silicone chambers

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-79

  Rodríguez, Francisco J ^a   Gómez, Nuria ^a   Labrador, Rafael O ^a   Butí, Miquel ^a   Ceballos, Dolores ^a   Cuadras, Jordi ^a   Verdú, Enrique ^a   Navarro, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Nerve regeneration; Nerve transplant; Reinnervation; Sciatic nerve; Tube repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOGENICITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SILASTIC TUBE; SWEATING;

EID: 0032901743     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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