A tissue-engineered conduit for peripheral nerve repair

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1081-1086

  Hadlock, Tessa ^a,b   Elisseeff, Jennifer ^c,d   Langer, Robert ^c,d   Vacanti, Joseph ^b   Cheney, Mack ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORSKOLIN; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POLYMERIZATION; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHWANN CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031690997     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.124.10.1081     Document Type: Article

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