Quantitative assessment of the innervation of epineural arteries in the peripheral nerve by immunofluorescence: Differences between controls and patients with peripheral arterial disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 475-480

  Teunissen, L L ^a   Veldink, J ^a   Notermans, N C ^a   Bleys, R L A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Peripheral vascular disease; Polyneuropathy; Protein gene product 9.5; Sural nerve

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; NERVE PLEXUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURAL NERVE; VASA VASORUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS; AXONS; CHILD; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POLYNEUROPATHIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SURAL NERVE; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE; VASA NERVORUM;

EID: 0036934463     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-001-0492-6     Document Type: Article

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