Tissue-engineered scaffolds are effective alternatives to autografts for bridging peripheral nerve gaps

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 421-430

  Yu, Xiaojun ^a   Bellamkonda, Ravi V ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; LAMININ 1; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; POLYSULFONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DONOR; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE LESION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUBE;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; LAMININ; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0038614699     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107632703322066606     Document Type: Article

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