Video-gait analysis of functional recovery of nerve repaired with chitosan nerve guides

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3189-3199

  Patel, Minal ^a   Vandevord, Pamela J ^a   Matthew, Howard ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Desilva, Stephen ^a   Wooley, Paul H ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; DISEASE CONTROL; HISTOLOGY; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHITOSAN NERVE GUIDES; HISTOMORPHOMETRY; SCIATIC NERVE RECOVERY; VIDEO-GAIT ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CHITOSAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; STANDING; VIDEORECORDING; WALKING;

ACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANKLE; AXONS; CHITOSAN; FEMALE; GAIT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POWDERS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCIATIC NERVE; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33751565278     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.3189     Document Type: Article

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