Abstract
The evidence that the sprouting process of axons after nerve damage and nerve repair complies with a natural law still raises a great number of questions: the individual amount of mis-routing and how to optimize this situation, how to support the growing forces of the sprouts pharmacologically, and how to minimize muscle fiber atrophy. Unfortunately, solutions that enable us to manage these questions remain elusive. Clinical and experimental research to date has only contributed a few small hints.
Keywords
Nerve Repair Peripheral Nerve Lesion Muscle Fiber Atrophy Scientific Outlook Axon Sprout
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