The effect of melatonin and platelet gel on sciatic nerve repair: An electrophysiological and stereological study

Microsurgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 306-313

  Kaplan, Süleyman ^a   Pişkin, Ahmet ^a   Ayyildiz, Mustafa ^a   Aktaş, Abit ^b   Köksal, Bülent ^a   Ulkay, Muzaffer Başak ^b   Türkmen, Aysin Pinar ^a   Bakan, Fatma ^a   Geuna, Stefano ^c  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MYELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLOOD PLATELETS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; GELS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MELATONIN; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 79955773096     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20876     Document Type: Article

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