Histomorphometric evaluation of mechanoreceptors and free nerve endings in human lateral ankle ligaments

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-90

  Moraes, Miguel R B ^a,b   Cavalcante, Maria Luzete C ^a   Leite, José Alberto D ^a   Ferreira, Francisco Valdecír ^a   Castro, Antônío Juvêncio O ^a   Santana, Maríana G ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine ^*

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE LATERAL LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCANEUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FIBULA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INNERVATION; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE ENDING; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SENSORY RECEPTOR; TALUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE JOINT; AXONS; CADAVER; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE ENDINGS;

EID: 37849035649     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2008.0087     Document Type: Article

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