A new effective scaffold to facilitate peripheral nerve regeneration: Chitosan tube coated with maggot homogenate product

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-14

  Zhang, Zhen ^a   Wang, Shouyu ^a   Tian, Xiliang ^a   Zhao, Zexu ^a   Zhang, Jianing ^a   Lv, Decheng ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; NEUROPEPTIDE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; CELL ADHESION; HOMOGENATE; MAGGOT; MATERIAL COATING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CELL ADHESION; CHITOSAN; HUMANS; LARVA; MACROPHAGES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SCHWANN CELLS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70450237664     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.053     Document Type: Article

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