The use of silk-based devices for fracture fixation

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Perrone, Gabriel S ^a,b   Leisk, Gary G ^b   Lo, Tim J ^a   Moreau, Jodie E ^a   Haas, Dylan S ^a   Papenburg, Bernke J ^a   Golden, Ethan B ^a   Partlow, Benjamin P ^a   Fox, Sharon E ^c   Ibrahim, Ahmed M S ^c   Lin, Samuel J ^c   Kaplan, David L ^a  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; SILK FIBROIN; SILK;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STERILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE PLATE; BONE REMODELING; BONE SCREW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURE FIXATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHEAR STRESS; SWELLING; WATER TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; DEVICES; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILK;

EID: 84895790063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4385     Document Type: Article

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