Next generation nerve guides: Materials, fabrication, growth factors, and cell delivery

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 116-128

  Bell, Juliet H A ^a   Haycock, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DELIVERY; CELL-FREE; CLINICAL USE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FUTURE DESIGNS; GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GUIDE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL CELL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SCHWANN CELLS; TOPOGRAPHICAL CUES; TUBULAR DESIGN;

CYTOLOGY; NEURONS; PRODUCT DESIGN; STEM CELLS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CHITOSAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; FIBRIN GLUE; GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIX PROTEIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; SILK FIBROIN;

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BRAIN CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE MUSCLE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURECTOMY; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; STEM CELL; SUBMUCOSA; SUTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND DRESSING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84858985288     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2011.0498     Document Type: Article

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