Graft repair of the peroneal nerve restores histochemical profile after long-term reinnervation of the rat extensor digitorum longus muscle in contrast to end-to-end repair

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 205, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 471-477

  Lehnert, M ^a   Maier, B ^a   Frank, J M ^a   Steudel, W I ^b   Marzi, I ^a   Mautes, Angelika ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Neurosurgical Research Laboratory   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing physiology; Histochemistry; Motor unit; Muscle; Peripheral nerve repair

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGING; ANIMALS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERONEAL NERVE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 12344270744     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8782.2004.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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