Functional recovery of rat hind-limb allografts

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 471-476

  Song, You Xin ^a   Muramatsu, Keiichi ^a   Kurokawa, Yoko ^a   Kuriyama, Ryutaro ^a   Sakamoto, Sotetsu ^a   Kaneko, Kazuo ^a   Taguchi, Toshihiko ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional recovery; Limb allograft; Rat

Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOGRAFT; LIMB ALLOGRAFT; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC FUNCTION INDEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSIBILITY; SKIN PAIN STIMULATION TEST; SKIN SENSITIVITY; STANDARD; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; WALKING; WALKING TRACK ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 25844499735     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-918902     Document Type: Article

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