Engineering a multimodal nerve conduit for repair of injured peripheral nerve

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Quigley, A F ^a,b,c   Bulluss, K J ^b,c   Kyratzis, I L B ^d   Gilmore, K ^a   Mysore, T ^a,b,c   Schirmer, K S U ^a,b,c,e   Kennedy, E L ^b,c   O'Shea, M ^d   Truong, Y B ^d   Edwards, S L ^d   Peeters, G ^d   Herwig, P ^d   Razal, J M ^a   Campbell, T E ^a   Lowes, K N ^b,c   Higgins, M J ^a   Moulton, S E ^a   Murphy, M A ^b,c   Cook, M J ^b,c   Clark, G M ^a,c   Wallace, G G ^a   Kapsa, R M I ^a,b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e HOCHSCHULE BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IMPLANTATION PERIODS; NERVE REGENERATION CONDUIT; NEUROTROPHIC FACTORS; PERIPHERAL NERVE REPAIR; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

BIOMATERIALS; COPOLYMERS; FIBERS; NEURONS; PORE SIZE; RATS; TISSUE;

REPAIR;

ALGINIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NANOFIBER; NEUROTROPIC AGENT; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTOMY; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPINNING; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NANOENGINEERING; NANOFABRICATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUIT; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; TUBE;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; LACTIC ACID; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PROSTHESES; PC12 CELLS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCHWANN CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84875400476     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/10/1/016008     Document Type: Article

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