Dehydroepiandrosterone as an enhancer of functional recovery following crush injury to rat sciatic nerve

Microsurgery

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 234-241

  Gudemez, Eftal ^a   Ozer, Kagan ^a   Cunningham, Brian ^a   Siemionow, Krzysztof ^a   Browne, Earl ^a   Siemionow, Maria ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN; PRASTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CRUSH TRAUMA; DRUG EFFICACY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; HINDLIMB; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0036378817     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.10039     Document Type: Article

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