Improved rate of peripheral nerve regeneration induced by extracorporeal shock wave treatment in the rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 363-370

  Hausner, Thomas ^a,d   Pajer, Krisztián ^b   Halat, Gabriel ^a,e   Hopf, Rudolf ^a   Schmidhammer, Robert ^a,c   Redl, Heinz ^a   Nógrádi, Antal ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c MILLESI Centre for Surgery of Peripheral Nerves   (Austria)

^d PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Axotomy; Nerve graft; Peripheral nerve; Shock wave treatment

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; GAIT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863450122     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.04.019     Document Type: Article

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