A hydrogel-based nerve regeneration conduit with sub-micrometer feature control

Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-103

  Livnat, Noga ^b   Sarig Nadir, Offra ^b   Zajdman, Ruthy ^b   Seliktar, Dror ^b   Shoham, Shy ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LITHOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; PHOTONS; PROTEINS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE PRECURSORS; FEATURE CONTROL; NERVE REGENERATION; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 34548763056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CNE.2007.369622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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