In vivo testing of a 3D bifurcating microchannel scaffold inducing separation of regenerating axon bundles in peripheral nerves

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Stoyanova, Irina I ^a   Van Wezel, Richard J A ^a,b   Rutten, Wim L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NERVES; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; NEUROPROSTHESES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROSTHETIC DEVICES; REGENERATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; STRAIGHT TUBES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COLLAGEN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROSTHETICS; SCAFFOLDS; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SEPARATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MICROCHANNELS;

TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTONEURON; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; VENTRAL ROOT; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE REGENERATION; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCIATIC NERVE; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84889050136     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/10/6/066018     Document Type: Article

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