Reconstruction of a 10-mm-long median nerve gap in an ischemic environment using autologous conduits with different patterns of blood supply: A comparative study in the rat

• Diogo Casal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Diogo Casal, Eduarda Mota-Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: diogo_bogalhao@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliations Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department and Burn Unit, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal, UCIBIO, Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-9340

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• Eduarda Mota-Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Diogo Casal, Eduarda Mota-Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LIBPhys, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Inês Iria,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Sara Alves,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Ana Farinho,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Cláudia Pen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Nuno Lourenço-Silva,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Luís Mascarenhas-Lemos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal

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• José Silva-Ferreira,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Mário Ferraz-Oliveira,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Pathology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central–Hospital de São José, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Valentina Vassilenko,

  Roles Resources, Software

  Affiliation LIBPhys, Physics Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Paula Alexandra Videira,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UCIBIO, Life Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal, CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• João Goyri-O’Neill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Diogo Pais

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Anatomy Department, NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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