Citicoline improves functional recovery, promotes nerve regeneration, and reduces postoperative scarring after peripheral nerve surgery in rats

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 615-622

  Özay, Rafet ^a   Bekar, Ahmet ^a   Kocaeli, Hasan ^a   Karli, Necdet ^a   Filiz, Gülaydan ^a   Ulus, I Hakki ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Citicoline; Peripheral nerve; Scarring

Indexed keywords

CITICOLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEASUREMENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUTURING METHOD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CICATRIX; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 36348987717     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.12.054     Document Type: Article

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