Efficacy of 780-nm laser phototherapy on peripheral nerve regeneration after neurotube reconstruction procedure (double-blind randomized study)

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 137-143

  Rochkind, Shimon ^a,c   Leider Trejo, Leonor ^a   Nissan, Moshe ^a   Shamir, Merav H ^b   Kharenko, Oleg ^a   Alon, Malvina ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-BLIND RANDOMIZED STUDY; LASER PHOTOTHERAPY; MYELINATED AXONS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID (PGA);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURONS; RATS;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; LASER; LASER PHOTOTHERAPY; MALE; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROTUBE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SCIATIC FUNCTIONAL INDEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TUBE;

ANIMALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 34447504689     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2007.2076     Document Type: Article

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