Functional characterization of optimized acellular peripheral nerve graft in a rat sciatic nerve injury model

Neurological Research

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 600-608

  Nagao, Ryan J ^a   Lundy, Scott ^a   Khaing, Zin Z ^a   Schmidt, Christine E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Acellular nerve graft; Peripheral nerve regeneration; SFI

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOGRAFT; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIMIZED ACELLULAR GRAFT; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCIATIC FUNCTIONAL INDEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SONDELL DECELLULARIZATION METHOD; THERMAL DECELLULARIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TRANSPLANTATION, ISOGENEIC;

EID: 79959700613     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132810Y.0000000023     Document Type: Article

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