Clinical and Histopathologic Study of the Use of Gangliosides for Nerve Regeneration in Rats After Axonotmesis

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 870-874

  Neto, Joaquim Celestino S ^a   Vasconcelos, Belmiro C E ^a   Sobral, Ana Paula V ^a   da Silva Jr , Valdemiro Amaro ^a   Nogueira, Ricardo Viana Bessa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GANGLIOSIDE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; SINAXIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MIXTURE; FEMALE; GAIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GANGLIOSIDES; INFLAMMATION; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 34247145419     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2006.06.298     Document Type: Article

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