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Descriptor English: Wallerian Degeneration
Descriptor Spanish: Degeneración Walleriana
Descriptor degeneración walleriana
Scope note: Degeneración de las zonas distales de un axón nervioso que sigue a la lesión del cuerpo de la célula o porción proximal del axón. El proceso se caracteriza por fragmentación del axón y su VAINA DE MIELINA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Degeneração Walleriana
Descriptor French: Dégénérescence wallerienne
Entry term(s): Degeneration, Wallerian
Tree number(s): C23.550.737.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014855
Scope note: Degeneration of distal aspects of a nerve axon following injury to the cell body or proximal portion of the axon. The process is characterized by fragmentation of the axon and its MYELIN SHEATH.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under NERVE DEGENERATION 1975-90
Online Note: search NERVE DEGENERATION 1967-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under NERVE DEGENERATION 1975-90
DeCS ID: 15256
Unique ID: D014855
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Wallerian Degeneration - Preferred
Concept UI M0022867
Scope note Degeneration of distal aspects of a nerve axon following injury to the cell body or proximal portion of the axon. The process is characterized by fragmentation of the axon and its MYELIN SHEATH.
Preferred term Wallerian Degeneration
Entry term(s) Degeneration, Wallerian



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