Mechanical properties of the bioabsorbable polyglycolic acid - Collagen nerve guide tube

Polymer Engineering and Science

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1461-1467

  Tanaka, Satoshi ^a   Takigawa, Toshikazu ^a   Ichihara, Satoshi ^b   Nakamura, Tatsuo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; NEUROLOGY; TISSUE;

COMPRESSION STRESS; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE REGENERATION; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID (PGA);

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

EID: 33749491453     PISSN: 00323888     EISSN: 15482634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pen.20600     Document Type: Article

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