Local tissue reactions after nerve repair with ethyl-cyanoacrylate compared with epineural sutures

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 217-227

  Landegren, Thomas ^a,b   Risling, Mårten ^a   Persson, Jonas K E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyanoacrylate; Epineural sutures; GAP 43; Macrophage; Nerve regeneration; Nerve repair; Neurofilament; Synthetic adhesive

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROMODULIN; SLC2A1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; NERVE REGENERATION; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUTURE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CYANOACRYLATES; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SUTURES;

EID: 35648942773     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: 16512073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844310701552001     Document Type: Article

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