Neural tissue engineering: Strategies for repair and regeneration

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 293-347

  Schmidt, Christine E ^a   Leach, Jennie Baier ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Nerve guidance channels; Nerve regeneration; Peripheral nerve repair; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISEASES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAFTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEUROLOGY; SURGERY;

INJURIES; NERVE GRAFTS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE;

BIOMATERIAL; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ADOPTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY; CELL CULTURE; DNA MODIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY ENSHEATHING CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG EFFECT; INFUSION PUMP; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 0642366759     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.5.011303.120731     Document Type: Review

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