Long term peripheral nerve regeneration using a novel PCL nerve conduit

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 544, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-130

  Reid, Adam J ^a,b   de Luca, Alba C ^a   Faroni, Alessandro ^a   Downes, Sandra ^a   Sun, Mingzhu ^a   Terenghi, Giorgio ^a   Kingham, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomaterial; Nerve conduit; Nerve regeneration; Peripheral nerve; Poly caprolactone

Indexed keywords

POLYCAPROLACTONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSCLE; MUSCLE MASS; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE SURGERY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; POLYESTERS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878395914     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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