The anabolic steroid nandrolone enhances motor and sensory functional recovery in rat median nerve repair with long interpositional nerve grafts

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 269-276

  Ghizoni, Marcos Flávio ^a   Bertelli, Jayme Augusto ^a   Grala, Carolina Giesel ^a   Da Silva, Rosemeri Maurici ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anabolic steroids; Nandrolone; Nerve regeneration; Rat median nerve

Indexed keywords

NANDROLONE DECANOATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREFOOT; GRIP STRENGTH; INTERPOSITIONAL NERVE GRAFT; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULNAR NERVE;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NANDROLONE; NERVE TISSUE; NOCICEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84877849363     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312465190     Document Type: Article

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