Comparison of divided sciatic nerve growth within dermis, venous and nerve graft conduit in rat

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Fatemi, Mohammad Javad ^a   Foroutan, Kamal Seyed ^a   Ashtiani, Abass Kazemi ^a   Mansoori, Maryam Jafari ^b   Vaghardoost, Reza ^c   Pedram, Sepehr ^a   Hosseinpolli, Aidin ^a   Rajabi, Fatemeh ^d   Mousavi, Seyed Jaber ^d  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b QOM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autogenous nerve graft; Dermal tube; Nerve conduit; Nerve gap; Nerve injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 77954803565     PISSN: 17351995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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