Morphological identification of cell death in dorsal root ganglion neurons following peripheral nerve injury and repair in adult rat

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-72

  Atlasi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Mehdizadeh, Mehdi ^b   Bahadori, Mohammad Hadi ^c   Joghataei, Mohammad Taghi ^b  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cell death; Dorsal root ganglion (DRG); Morphology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RAT; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; STAINING AND LABELING; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 67649592246     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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