Posttraumatic facial nerve regeneration in rabbits

Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia

Costa, Heloisa Juliana Zabeu Rossi¹  FCM¹  USP¹  Korn, Gustavo Polacow¹  Silva, Ciro Ferreira da¹  Lazarini, Paulo Roberto¹  Sociedade Brasileira de ORL¹  Faculdade de Ciências Médicas¹  Universidade de São Paulo¹  Universidade Federal de São Paulo¹ 

关键词: rabbits;    nerve;    facial;    regeneration.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-72992006000600009

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cervicofacial

【 摘 要 】

Posttraumatic facial paralysis is a frequent disease. This work studies posttraumatic regeneration of the facial nerve in rabbits. Functional and histological analysis compared injured and normal nerves on opposite sides. The left facial nerve trunk of twenty rabbits were subjectedto compression lesion, and sacrificed after two (subgroup AL), four (BL) and six (CL) weeks. Comparison between groups was made by analysing total and partial densities of myelinated axons. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Tu

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