The effects of adjuvant fibrin sealant on the surgical repair of segmental nerve defects in an animal model

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 847-855

  Rafijah, Gregory ^a   Bowen, Andrew Jay ^a   Dolores, Christina ^a   Vitali, Ryan ^a   Mozaffar, Tahseen ^a   Gupta, Ranjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; fibrin; peripheral nerve injury and repair

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; FIBRIN GLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REMYELINIZATION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84876675390     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.01.044     Document Type: Article

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