Chapter 14 End-to-Side Nerve Regeneration. From the Laboratory Bench to Clinical Applications

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 87, Issue C, 2009, Pages 281-294

  Tos, Pierluigi ^a   Artiaco, Stefano ^b   Papalia, Igor ^c   Marcoccio, Ignazio ^d   Geuna, Stefano ^e   Battiston, Bruno ^a  

^a CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d Istituto Clinico Citta di Brescia   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE;

ADAPTATION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; END TO SIDE NEURORRHAPHY; INNERVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 70349782996     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(09)87014-1     Document Type: Review

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