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Wallerian Degeneration

"Wallerian Degeneration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Wallerian Degeneration" by people in this website by year, and whether "Wallerian Degeneration" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2009 and 2012 and 2016 and 2018 and 2019 and 2020
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