Functional assessment after sciatic nerve injury in a rat model

Microsurgery

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 644-649

  Dinh, Paul ^a   Hazel, Antony ^a   Palispis, Winnie ^a   Suryadevara, Sourabh ^a   Gupta, Ranjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE AND BRESNAHAN LOCOMOTOR RATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCIATIC FUNCTION INDEX; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 73249127810     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20685     Document Type: Article

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