Enhancement of sciatic nerve regeneration after vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene therapy

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 600-612

  Pereira Lopes, F R ^a   Lisboa, B C G ^c   Frattini, F ^a,b   Almeida, F M ^a   Tomaz, M A ^a   Matsumoto, P K ^c   Langone, F ^d   Lora, S ^e   Melo, P A ^a   Borojevic, R ^a   Han, S W ^c   Martinez, A M B ^a  

^a Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene therapy; Histomorphometry; Peripheral nerve; Regeneration; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; PLASMID VECTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GENE THERAPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 80052379936     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01159.x     Document Type: Article

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