[Structural changes in the peripheral nerves over a lifetime. Morphometric studies of the sciatic and sural nerves]

K H Pollak1, K Fiedler

  • 1Institut für Pathologie, Uchtspringe, DDR.

Zentralblatt Fur Allgemeine Pathologie U. Pathologische Anatomie
|January 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Nerve cross-sections decrease with age, with significant reductions in Schwann cell nuclei density from birth to five years. These changes in sciatic and sural nerves show distinct age-related patterns.

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