Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction after Injury: A Review of Clinical and Experimental Therapies

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Grinsell, D ^a   Keating, C P ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; MACROGOL; MYELIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POLITEF; PROTEINASE;

AMNION; BIOENGINEERING; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; FREE FUNCTIONING MUSCLE TRANSFER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INJURY SEVERITY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; MYOFIBROSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLITEF IMPLANT; REVIEW; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION; ANIMAL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84925138601     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/698256     Document Type: Review

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