Nerve repair by end-to-side nerve coaptation: Histologic and morphometric evaluation of axonal origin in a rat sciatic nerve model

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 567-576

  Haastert, Kirsten ^a   Joswig, Holger ^b   Jäschke, Katharina Anne ^b   Samii, Madjid ^c   Grothe, Claudia ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; End to end neurorrhaphy; End to side neurorrhaphy; Sciatic nerve model

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; END TO END NERVE NEURORRHAPHY; END TO SIDE NERVE NEURORRHAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE SUTURE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMYELINIZATION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SPINAL GANGLION; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GAP-43 PROTEIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIBIAL NEUROPATHY;

EID: 77649163827     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000365768.78251.8C     Document Type: Article

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