Superior muscle reinnervation after autologous nerve graft or poly-L-lactide-ε-caprolactone (PLC) tube implantation in comparison to silicone tube repair

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 214-223

  Valero Cabré, Antoni ^a   Tsironis, Konstantin ^b   Skouras, Emmanouil ^c   Perego, Gabriele ^d   Navarro, Xavier ^a   Neiss, Wolfram F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Klinik für Unfall Hand Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d Novamont SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Nerve conduit; Regeneration; Retrograde tracers; Tubulization

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; FAST BLUE; FLUOROGOLD; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; POLY LEVO LACTIDE EPSILON CAPROLACTONE; SILICONE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMPLANTATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SILASTIC TUBE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEXANOIC ACIDS; LACTONES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYESTERS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SILICONES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0035863585     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4547(20010115)63:2<214::AID-JNR1014>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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