Correlation of three sciatic functional indices with histomorphometric findings in a rat sciatic nerve allograft repair model

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 560-567

  Rustemeyer, Jan ^a,b   Dicke, Ursula ^b  

^a KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS;

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERKERATOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 70349929332     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20658     Document Type: Article

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