The use of a muscle graft to repair a segmentary nerve defect: An experimental study using the sciatic nerve of rats as model

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 19-26

  Oliveira, E F ^a   Mazzer, N ^a   Barbieri, C H ^a   Delbel, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Morphometry; Nerve graft; Sciatic functional index; Sciatic nerve of rats; Segmentary lesion; Skeletal muscle graft; Spinal cord cellularity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE GRAFT; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0742306857     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2003.09.010     Document Type: Article

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