Fabrication and properties of a porous chitin/chitosan conduit for nerve regeneration

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1793-1797

  Yang, Yumin ^a,b   Gu, Xiaosong ^b   Tan, Renxiang ^a   Hu, Wen ^b   Wang, Xiaodong ^b   Zhang, Peiyun ^b   Zhang, Tianyi ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANTONG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Chitin; Chitosan; Nerve conduit; Nerve regeneration

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE;

ANIMAL TESTS; CHITOSAN;

CHITIN;

BIOMATERIAL; CHITIN; CHITOSAN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; RAT; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE REGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; ELASTICITY; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; NERVE REGENERATION; POROSITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 13244254043     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-004-4611-z     Document Type: Article

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