Biohybride nerve guide for regeneration: Degradable polylactide fibers coated with rat Schwann cells

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 165-168

  Steuer, Heiko ^a   Fadale, Roberto ^a   Müller, Erhard ^b   Müller, Hans Werner ^c   Planck, Heinrich ^b   Schlosshauer, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Institute für Textil und Faserforschung DITF   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axon; Chick dorsal root ganglia; Immunofluorescence; Polylactide; Regeneration; Scanning electron microscopy; Schwann cells; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; POLYANION; POLYLACTIDE; POLYLYSINE; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL ADHESION; CHICK EMBRYO; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGY; POLYESTERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0032692899     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00886-1     Document Type: Article

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