Combined use of spinal cord-mimicking partition type scaffold architecture and neurotrophin-3 for surgical repair of completely transected spinal cord in rats

Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 927-939

  Wang, Xuesong ^b   Li, Yi ^a   Gao, Yinfeng ^a   Chen, Xue ^a   Yao, Jian ^a   Lin, Weiwei ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Liu, Jie ^b   Yang, Yumin ^b   Wang, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a NANTONG MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NANTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Neurotrophin 3; Partition type architecture; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord mimicking

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVE COMPONENTS; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS; NEUROTROPHIN-3; REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); SPINAL CORD-MIMICKING;

ARCHITECTURE; CHITOSAN; PATIENT REHABILITATION; REPAIR; SURGERY; TISSUE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CHITOSAN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84877968055     PISSN: 09205063     EISSN: 15685624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09205063.2012.727267     Document Type: Article

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