Repair of Rat Sciatic Nerve Gap by a Silk Fibroin-Based Scaffold Added with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2231-2244

  Yang, Yumin ^a   Yuan, Xinlu ^a   Ding, Fei ^a   Yao, Dengbing ^a   Gu, Yun ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Gu, Xiaosong ^a  

^a NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE; CELL CULTURE; FLOWCHARTING; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROLOGY; NEURONS; PEPTIDES; RATS; SILK; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

AXONAL GROWTH; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BONE MARROW MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; CELL BEHAVIORS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GRAFTS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROTROPHIC; NEW DESIGN; PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROMOTING EFFECT; RAT SCIATIC NERVE; SCHWANN CELLS; SILK FIBROIN; SURGICAL REPAIR; UP-REGULATION;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

RATTUS;

FIBROIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SILK; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FIBROINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SILK; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 80052905420     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0633     Document Type: Article

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