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.
| Descriptor ID |
D014855
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.737.750
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wallerian Degeneration" by people in Profiles.
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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.