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Effect of tetrapeptide cortagen on regeneration of sciatic nerve

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Intramuscular injection of 10 μg/kg cortagen to rats during 10 days after transsection and suturing of the sciatic nerve increased the growth rate and conduction velocity in the regenerating nerve fibers by 27% and 40%, respectively.

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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 130, No. 12, pp. 654–656, December, 2000

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Turchaninova, L.N., Kolosova, L.I., Malinin, V.V. et al. Effect of tetrapeptide cortagen on regeneration of sciatic nerve. Bull Exp Biol Med 130, 1172–1174 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02682018

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