C3 Peptide Promotes Axonal Regeneration and Functional Motor Recovery after Peripheral Nerve Injury

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-198

  Huelsenbeck, Stefanie C ^a,c   Rohrbeck, Astrid ^a   Handreck, Annelie ^a   Hellmich, Gesa ^a   Kiaei, Eghlima ^a   Roettinger, Irene ^a   Grothe, Claudia ^a,b   Just, Ingo ^a   Haastert Talini, Kirsten ^a,b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

10 mm nerve gap; Autotransplantation; C3 156 181 peptide; Crush injury; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BUFFER; EXOENZYME C3; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SUTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; COMPLEMENT C3; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; ORGAN SIZE; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84856574470     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-011-0072-y     Document Type: Article

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