Use of a newly developed artificial nerve conduit to assist peripheral nerve regeneration across a long gap in dogs

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 415-420

  Matsumoto, Kazuya ^a   Ohnishi, Katsunori ^a   Sekine, Takashi ^a   Ueda, Hiroki ^a   Yamamoto, Yasumichi ^a   Kiyotani, Tetsuya ^a   Nakamura, Tatsuo ^a   Endo, Katsuaki ^b   Shimizu, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NEUROLOGY; SURGERY;

ARTIFICIAL NERVE CONDUIT; COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIALS; PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIALS;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS;

ATELOCOLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; LAMININ; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUIT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WALKING;

EID: 0034234242     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002480-200007000-00009     Document Type: Article

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