Cavernous nerve reconstruction with a biodegradable conduit graft and collagen sponge in the rat

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 286-291

  Hisasue, Shin Ichi ^a   Kato, Ryuichi ^a   Sato, Yoshikazu ^a   Suetomi, Takahiro ^a   Tabata, Yasuhiko ^b   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorbable implants; Collagen; Nerve regeneration; Penis; Rats, Sprague Dawley

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COPOLYMER; FLUOROGOLD; LACTIC ACID; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GANGLION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 10344227756     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000141578.84536.80     Document Type: Article

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