Muscle recovery after repair of short and long peripheral nerve gaps using fibrin conduits

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 500, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-46

  Pettersson, Jonas ^a   McGrath, Aleksandra ^a   Kalbermatten, Daniel F ^b,c   Novikova, Liudmila N ^a   Wiberg, Mikael ^a   Kingham, Paul J ^a   Novikov, Lev N ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autograft; Biosynthetic conduit; Muscle fiber; Nerve injury; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; LAMININ; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 79960288576     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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