Cryopreservation of peripheral nerve grafts

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1227-1233

  Fansa, Hisham ^a   Lassner, Franz ^b   Kook, Peter H ^a   Keilhoff, Gerburg ^a   Schneider, Wolfgang ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controlled cryopreservation; Nerve graft; Nerve regeneration; Schwann cell; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0033866044     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200008)23:8<1227::AID-MUS11>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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