Effect of laser therapy (660 nm) on recovery of the sciatic nerve in rats after injury through neurotmesis followed by epineural anastomosis

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 741-747

  Dos Reis, Filipe Abdalla ^a   Belchior, Ana Carulina Guimarães ^a   De Carvalho, Paulo De Tarso Camillo ^a   Da Silva, Baldomero Antônio Kato ^a   Pereira, Daniel Martins ^a   Silva, Iandara Schettert ^a   Nicolau, Renata Amadei ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ANHANGUERA UNIDERP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Low level laser therapy; Nerve regeneration; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; GALLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 68849131467     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-008-0634-3     Document Type: Article

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