Effect of Acetyl-L-Carnitine on axonal sprouting following donor nerve injury distal to an end-to-side neurorrhaphy model

Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 483-495

  Kokkalis, Zinon T ^a   Soucacos, Panayiotis N ^b   Terzis, Julia K ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acetyl L carnitine; Crush injury; Distal donor injury; End to side neurorrhaphy; Ligation; Transection repair

Indexed keywords

LEVACECARNINE; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; END TO SIDE NEURORRHAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE INJURY; NERVE LIGATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACETYLCARNITINE; ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 70449416087     PISSN: 0743684X     EISSN: 10988947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1234027     Document Type: Article

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