Peripheral nerve allograft: an assessment of regeneration across pretreated nerve allografts.
Regeneration across lyophilized and irradiated peripheral nerve allografts was assessed using electrical and histological parameters. Regeneration did occur across these pretreated nerve allografts and was intermediate between that regeneration which occurred across a fresh, untreated nerve allograft and that which occurred across the control autograft.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D005612:Freeze Drying; D006082:Graft Enhancement, Immunologic / Q000379:methods*; D009416:Nerve Regeneration; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000276:immunology / Q000528:radiation effects / Q000637:transplantation*; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew