Motor Recovery and Synaptic Preservation after Ventral Root Avulsion and Repair with a Fibrin Sealant Derived from Snake Venom

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Barbizan, Roberta ^a   Castro, Mateus V ^a   Rodrigues, Antônio C ^b   Barraviera, Benedito ^c   Ferreira, Rui S ^c   Oliveira, Alexandre L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN IBA1; SNAKE VENOM; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REIMPLANTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PRESSURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADICULOPATHY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SNAKE VENOMS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UP-REGULATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84877134844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063260     Document Type: Article

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