Delayed repair of the peripheral nerve: A novel model in the rat sciatic nerve

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-44

  Wu, Peng ^a,b   Spinner, Robert J ^a   Gu, Yudong ^b   Yaszemski, Michael J ^a   Windebank, Anthony J ^a   Wang, Huan ^a,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Peripheral Nerve and Microsurgery   (China)

Author keywords

Animal model; Delay; Model; Nerve; Secondary repair

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TENSION; THERAPY DELAY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REOPERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873185515     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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