Photochemical Tissue Bonding: A Promising Technique for Peripheral Nerve Repair

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 224-229

  Johnson, T Shane ^a   O'Neill, Anne C ^a   Motarjem, Pejman M ^a   Amann, Christopher ^a   Nguyen, Tuan ^a   Randolph, Mark A ^a   Winograd, Jonathan M ^a   Kochevar, Irene E ^a   Redmond, Robert W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

nerve repair; photochemistry tissue adhesive; rose bengal; sciatic nerve; tissue bonding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREIGN BODY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHOTOCHEMICAL TISSUE BONDING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE REPAIR;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; LIGHT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SUTURES; TISSUE ADHESIVES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 36048952745     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.01.028     Document Type: Article

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