Synergistic motor nerve fiber transfer between different nerves through the use of end-to-side coaptation

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-394

  Schmidhammer, R ^a,c   Nogradi A ^d   Szabo A ^d   Redl, H ^a   Hausner, T ^a,e   van der Nest, D G ^b   Millesi, H ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c the Vienna Private Clinic   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e University Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

End to side coaptation; Nerve fiber transfer; Nerve graft; Non human primate model; Reinnervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABOON; DONOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE COAPTATION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; FUNCTION TEST; HAND FUNCTION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE;

ANIMALS; ARM; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DENERVATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HAND STRENGTH; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSFER; PAPIO URSINUS; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 67349216186     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.03.027     Document Type: Article

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