Repair of transected facial nerve with mesenchymal stromal cells: Histopathologic evidence of superior outcome

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2221-2225

  Satar, Bulent ^a   Karahatay, Serdar ^a   Kurt, Bulent ^a   Ural, Ali Ugur ^a   Safali, Mukerrem ^a   Avcu, Ferit ^a   Oztas, Emin ^a   Kucuktag, Zulkuf ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Facial nerve; Facial palsy; Mesenchymal stromal cell; Nerve anastomosis

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; MANDIBULAR NERVE; MESENCHYME CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; STROMA CELL; SUTURE;

ANIMALS; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 73449101866     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20610     Document Type: Article

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