Bioengineered scaffolds for spinal cord repair

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 177-194

  Wang, Mindan ^a   Zhai, Peng ^a   Chen, Xiongbiao ^a   Schreyer, David J ^b   Sun, Xiaodan ^c   Cui, Fuzhai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TISSUES; AXON GROWTH; BIOACTIVE MOLECULES; CELLULAR RESPONSE; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; LARGE PARTS; LIVING CELL; REGENERATIVE CAPACITY; SCAFFOLD MATERIALS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORDS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY;

DOSIMETRY; MAMMALS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REPAIR; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COPOLYMER; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; DNA SYNTHESIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; NANOFABRICATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE REGENERATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79958252032     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2010.0648     Document Type: Article

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