Cutaneous lesions sensory impairment recovery and nerve regeneration in leprosy patients

Cutaneous lesions sensory impairment recovery and nerve regeneration in leprosy patients

It is important to understand the mechanisms that enable peripheral neurons to regenerate after nerve injury in order to identify methods of improving this regeneration. Therefore, we studied nerve regeneration and sensory impairment recovery in the cutaneous lesions of leprosy patients (LPs) before...

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Main Authors: Ximena Illarramendi, Emanuel Rangel, Alice Machado Miranda, Ana Claudia Ribeiro de Castro, Giselle de Oliveira Magalhães, Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2012-12-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Subjects:
leprosy
cutaneous nerve fibre
nerve regeneration
PGP 9.5
nerve growth factor receptor
immunohistochemistry
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762012000900012&lng=en&tlng=en

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