Neuroregeneration in composite tissue allografts: Effect of low-dose FK506 and mycophenolate mofetil immunotherapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 615-623

  Cottrell, Bradford L ^a   Perez Abadia, Gustavo ^a   Onifer, Stephen M ^a   Magnuson, David S ^a   Burke, Darlene A ^a   Grossi, Federico V ^a   Francois, Cedric G ^a   Barker, John H ^a   Maldonado, Claudio ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOGRAFT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; REVASCULARIZATION; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; AXONS; CONTRACTURE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMORAL NERVE; FOOT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; GRAFT REJECTION; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE REGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, INBRED WF; SCIATIC NERVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33748283335     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000233029.57397.4a     Document Type: Article

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