Cooling enhances in vitro survival and fusion-repair of severed axons taken from the peripheral and central nervous systems of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 327, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-12

  Marzullo, Timothy C ^a   Britt, Joshua M ^a   Stavisky, Ronda C ^a   Bittner, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Nerve repair; Polyethylene glycol; Wallerian degeneration

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; COLD; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLVENTS; SPINAL CORD; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 0037067515     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00378-6     Document Type: Article

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