Effect of conduit repair on aberrant motor axon growth within the nerve graft in rats

Microsurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 500-509

  Tomita, Koichi ^a   Kubo, Tateki ^a   Matsuda, Ken ^a   Hattori, Ryo ^a   Fujiwara, Toshihiro ^a   Yano, Kenji ^a   Hosokawa, Ko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SILICONES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 34547867790     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20394     Document Type: Article

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