A novel scaffold with longitudinally oriented microchannels promotes peripheral nerve regeneration

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3297-3308

  Hu, Xueyu ^a   Huang, Jinghui ^a   Ye, Zhengxu ^a   Xia, Lei ^a   Li, Mo ^a   Lv, Bochang ^b   Shen, Xuefeng ^b   Luo, Zhuojing ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AMINES; MICROCHANNELS; MICROSTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL STUDIES; BASAL LAMINA; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; FUNCTIONAL TECHNIQUE; IN-VIVO; INNER STRUCTURE; INTERCONNECTED PORES; NERVE AUTOGRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; ORIENTED MICROSTRUCTURE; PARALLEL MICROCHANNELS; PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCIATIC NERVES; STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGE;

SCAFFOLDS;

CHITOSAN; COLLAGEN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONVALESCENCE; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 72649090926     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0017     Document Type: Article

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