Spinal cord stimulation improves survival in ischemic skin flaps: An experimental study of the possible mediation by calcitonin gene-related peptide

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1221-1228

  Gherardini, Giulio ^b   Lundeberg, Thomas ^b   Cui, Jian Guo ^b   Eriksson, Sven V ^b   Trubek, Simon ^b   Linderoth, Bengt ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE ANTAGONIST; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE[8-37]; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISLAND FLAP; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN FLAP; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; VASOSPASM;

EID: 0033052688     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199904010-00018     Document Type: Article

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