Functional effects of local thyroid hormone administration after sciatic nerve injury in rats

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-41

  Papakostas, Ioannis ^a   Mourouzis, Iordanis ^a   Mourouzis, Kostas ^a   Macheras, Georgios ^b   Boviatsis, Efstathios ^a   Pantos, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b IKA Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SILASTIC TUBE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAIT; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFLEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 58849103597     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20546     Document Type: Article

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