Fabrication of seamless electrospun collagen/PLGA conduits whose walls comprise highly longitudinal aligned nanofibers for nerve regeneration

Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 931-943

  Ouyang, Yuanming ^a   Huang, Chen ^b   Zhu, Yi ^a   Fan, Cunyi ^a   Ke, Qinfei ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Collagen; Electrospining; Nanofiber; Nerve tissue engineering; PLGA

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL PROPAGATION; ELECTROSPINING; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSPUN COLLAGEN; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING; PLGA; POLY(LACTIC-CO-GLYCOLIC ACID);

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COLLAGEN; COPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOFIBERS; NEURONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COLLAGEN; GLUTARALDEHYDE; N52 PROTEIN; NANOFIBER; NF 200 PROTEIN; POLYGLACTIN; PROTEIN S 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPINNING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE MASS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOMEDICINE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTATION; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877839057     PISSN: 15507033     EISSN: 15507041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2013.1605     Document Type: Article

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