Peripheral Nerve: What's New in Basic Science Laboratories

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-131

  Song, Jae W ^a   Yang, Lynda J ^b   Russell, Stephen M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allotransplantation; Electrical stimulation; Nerve regeneration; Preferential motor reinneravation; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INNERVATION; LABORATORY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 57049170836     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2008.07.026     Document Type: Review

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