 Wallerian Degeneration
"Wallerian Degeneration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Degeneration of distal aspects of a nerve axon following injury to the cell body or proximal portion of the axon. The process is characterized by fragmentation of the axon and its MYELIN SHEATH.
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D014855
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.737.750
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wallerian Degeneration" by people in Profiles.
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Ghergherehchi CL, Mikesh M, Sengelaub DR, Jackson DM, Smith T, Nguyen J, Shores JT, Bittner GD. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) and other bioactive solutions with neurorrhaphy for rapid and dramatic repair of peripheral nerve lesions by PEG-fusion. J Neurosci Methods. 2019 02 15; 314:1-12.
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Mikesh M, Ghergherehchi CL, Hastings RL, Ali A, Rahesh S, Jagannath K, Sengelaub DR, Trevino RC, Jackson DM, Bittner GD. Polyethylene glycol solutions rapidly restore and maintain axonal continuity, neuromuscular structures, and behaviors lost after sciatic nerve transections in female rats. J Neurosci Res. 2018 07; 96(7):1223-1242.
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Gazda LS, Milligan ED, Hansen MK, Twining CM, Poulos NM, Chacur M, O'Connor KA, Armstrong C, Maier SF, Watkins LR, Myers RR. Sciatic inflammatory neuritis (SIN): behavioral allodynia is paralleled by peri-sciatic proinflammatory cytokine and superoxide production. J Peripher Nerv Syst. 2001 Sep; 6(3):111-29.
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