Cat peripheral nerve regeneration across 50 mm gap repaired with a novel nerve guide composed of freeze-dried alginate gel

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 75-78

  Suzuki, Yoshihisa ^a   Tanihara, Masao ^b   Ohnishi, Katsunori ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Endo, Katsuaki ^a   Nishimura, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alginate; Artificial nerve; Compound muscle action potential; Extracellular matrix; Nerve regeneration; Polyglycolic acid; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; GEL; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 0033534688     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00924-0     Document Type: Article

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