Morphometeric study of primary sensory neurons following surgical repair of sciatic nerve

Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-369

  Atlasi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mehdizadeh, Mehdi ^b,c   Bahadori, Mohammad Hadi ^b   Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi ^c  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglion neurons; Morphometery; Sciatic nerve; Surgical nerve repair

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; STAINING; SURGICAL APPROACH; SUTURING METHOD;

EID: 34347348244     PISSN: 1682024X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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