Transplantation of nanostructured composite scaffolds results in the regeneration of chronically injured spinal cords

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-236

  Gelain, Fabrizio ^a,b   Panseri, Silvia ^a   Antonini, Stefania ^a,b   Cunha, Carla ^a,b   Donega, Matteo ^a,b   Lowery, Joseph ^c   Taraballi, Francesca ^a,b   Cerri, Gabriella ^d   Montagna, Marcella ^d   Baldissera, Fausto ^d   Vescovi, Angelo ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Center for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrospinning; Evoked potentials; Self assembling peptide; Spinal cord injury; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

AXONAL REGENERATION; BASAL LAMINA; CYTOKINES; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; INJURED SPINAL CORDS; LOCOMOTION SCORE; MOTOR PATHWAY; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITES; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PROSTHETIC; NEUROPROSTHETICS; RAT MODEL; SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROMAL CELLS; VASCULAR NETWORK;

DOSIMETRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PEPTIDES; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

LACTIC ACID; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOFIBER; PEPTIDE; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID POLYGLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER; POLYLACTIC ACID-POLYGLYCOLIC ACID COPOLYMER; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYELIN SHEATH; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; FEMALE; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; LACTIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN SHEATH; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFIBERS; PEPTIDES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79955119650     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102461w     Document Type: Article

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