Effect of aging on recovery of cutaneous nociception after end-to-side nerve repair in the rat

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-445

  Kovačič, Uro ^a,b   Sketelj, Janez ^a   Bajrović, Fajko F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Aging; End to side nerve repair; Nociception; Peripheral nerve; Rat; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN; SURAL NERVE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 65949090499     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318180c8cb     Document Type: Article

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