In vitro and in vivo evaluation of a biodegradable chitosan-PLA composite peripheral nerve guide conduit material

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 471-479

  Xie, Feng ^a   Qing, Feng Li ^a,b   Gu, Bin ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Guo, Xiong Shen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; POLYLACTIC ACID; SILICON;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; ELASTICITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHITOSAN; ELASTICITY; LACTIC ACID; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 53049091180     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20514     Document Type: Article

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