Long-Term In Vivo Evaluation of Chitosan Nerve Guide Properties with respect to Two Different Sterilization Methods

Figure 4

Photomicrographs illustrating tissue section histomorphometrically analyzed. (a, b) Cross-section through an age- and location-matched health nerve, (c, d) nerve harvested 16 weeks after reconstruction, and (e,f) nerve harvested 76 weeks after reconstruction. (a, c, e) Scale bars: 500 μm; (b,d,f) scale bars 10 μm.

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