Alginate, a bioresorbable material derived from brown seaweed, enhances elongation of amputated axons of spinal cord in infant rats

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-384

  Kataoka, Kazuya ^a   Suzuki, Yoshihisa ^a   Kitada, Masaaki ^a   Ohnishi, Katsunori ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Tanihara, Masao ^b   Ide, Chizuka ^a   Endo, Katsuaki ^a   Nishimura, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial nerve; Freeze dried alginate sponge; HRP; Immunohistochemistry; Spinal cord regeneration

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CROSSLINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BIORESORBABLE MATERIALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SPINAL CORD;

BIOMATERIALS;

ALGINIC ACID; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FREEZE DRYING; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEAWEED; SPINAL CORD; SPONGE (PORIFERA);

ALGAE, BROWN; ALGINATES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; BIOTIN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0035809850     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4636(20010305)54:3<373::AID-JBM90>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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