The bridging of nerve gaps is still one of the major problems in peripheral nerve surgery. The present experiment describes our attempt to engineer different biologic nerve grafts in a rat sciatic nerve model: cultured isogenic Schwann cells were implanted into 2-cm autologous acellular nerve grafts
Peripheral nerve reconstruction using acellular nerve grafts
β Scribed by Steven C. Haase; Paul S. Cederna; Robert G. Dennis; William M. Kuzon Jr.
- Book ID
- 114354047
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 191
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1072-7515
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