Tissue specificity in rat peripheral nerve regeneration through combined skeletal muscle and vein conduit grafts

Microsurgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 65-71

  Tos, Pierluigi ^a,b,c   Battiston, Bruno ^a   Geuna, Stefano ^c   Giacobini Robecchi, Maria G ^c   Hill, Mark A ^d   Lanzetta, Marco ^b   Owen, Earl R ^b  

^a CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Microsearch Foundation of Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION STUMP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SUTURE; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN GRAFT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TROPISM;

EID: 0034102609     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(2000)20:2<65::AID-MICR4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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