The reparative response to cross-linked collagen-based scaffolds in a rat spinal cord gap model

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2050-2059

  Cholas, Rahmatullah H ^a,b   Hsu, Hu Ping ^b,c   Spector, Myron ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Growth factors; Nerve guide; Nerve tissue engineering; Scaffold; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS; COLLAGEN-BASED SCAFFOLDS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; CONTROL GAPS; CONTROL GROUPS; DELIVERY VEHICLE; FIBROUS TISSUE; FLUID-FILLED; GAP MODEL; GLIAL CELLS; GROWTH FACTORS; LAMININ; LONG AXIS; NERVE AUTOGRAFT; NERVE GUIDE; NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING; NEUROTROPIC FACTORS; PERIPHERAL NERVE REGENERATION; PLASMID ENCODING; RAT NEURAL STEM CELLS; RAT SPINAL CORD; REPARATIVE RESPONSE; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CANALS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORDS; STUDY GROUPS; THERAPEUTIC AGENTS; TIME POINTS; TREATMENT GROUP; UNTREATED CONTROL;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE; COLLAGEN; CROSSLINKING; DEFECTS; DOSIMETRY; GENES; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RAT CONTROL; RATS; SCAFFOLDS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COLLAGEN IMPLANT; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; CYANAMIDE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LAMININ; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALING; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COLLAGEN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84855721482     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.11.028     Document Type: Article

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