Nerve regeneration and functional recovery after a sciatic nerve gap is repaired by an acellular nerve allograft made through chemical extraction in canines

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 479-488

  Zhong, Hongbin ^a   Chen, Bingyao ^a,c   Lu, Shibi ^b   Zhao, Min ^b   Guo, Yingfei ^c   Hou, Shuxun ^a  

^a Institute of Orthopaedics   (China)

^b Department of Orthopaedics ^*  (China)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Acellular nerve allograft; Nerve regeneration; Recovery of motor function; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DETERGENT; OCTOXINOL;

ACELLULAR NERVE ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GAIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE MALFORMATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCAR FORMATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE GAP; TIBIAL NERVE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DOG; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DEOXYCHOLIC ACID; DETERGENTS; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GAIT; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; OCTOXYNOL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 43049164366     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-992340     Document Type: Article

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