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ArticleIndian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

The neurochemistry of peripheral nerve regeneration.

Andreea Benga, Fatih Zor, Ahmet Korkmaz, Bogdan Marinescu, Vijay Gorantla

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Article in Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Andreea BengaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
Fatih ZorDepartment of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey.
Ahmet KorkmazDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey.
Bogdan MarinescuDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Carol Davila Central Military Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
Vijay GorantlaDepartment of Plastic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Turkish Armed Forces · TRUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) can be most disabling, resulting in the loss of sensitivity, motor function and autonomic control in the involved anatomical segment. Although injured peripheral nerves are capable of regeneration, sub-optimal recovery of function is seen even with the best reconstruction. Distal axonal degeneration is an unavoidable consequence of PNI. There are currently few strategies aimed to maintain the distal pathway and/or target fidelity during regeneration across the zone of injury. The current state of the art approaches have been focussed on the site of nerve injury and not on their distal muscular targets or representative proximal cell bodies or central cortical regions. This is a comprehensive literature review of the neurochemistry of peripheral nerve regeneration and a state of the art analysis of experimental compounds (inorganic and organic agents) with demonstrated neurotherapeutic efficacy in improving cell body and neuron survival, reducing scar formation and maximising overall nerve regeneration.

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Cell bodynerve regenerationnerve repairneuron survivalperipheral nerve injury

Identifiers

PMID28615804
PMCPMC5469235
OpenAlexW2622867192

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