Perspectives in regeneration and tissue engineering of peripheral nerves

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 334-340

  Raimondo, Stefania ^a   Fornaro, Michele ^a   Tos, Pierluigi ^b   Battiston, Bruno ^b   Giacobini Robecchi, Maria G ^a   Geuna, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Microsurgery; Peripheral nerve injury and regeneration; Physical therapy; Tissue engineering; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MORPHOLOGY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PUBLISHING; RATS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960274921     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: 16180402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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