A polymer foam conduit seeded with Schwann cells promotes guided peripheral nerve regeneration

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-127

  Hadlock, Tessa ^a,b   Sundback, Cathryn ^b   Hunter, Daniel ^c   Cheney, Mack ^a   Vacanti, Joseph P ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL ADHESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOAM; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LACTIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034001128     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632700320748     Document Type: Article

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