Method to form a fiber/growth factor dual-gradient along electrospun silk for nerve regeneration

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 16817-16826

  Dinis, Tony M ^a,b   Elia, Roberto ^b   Vidal, Guillaume ^a   Auffret, Adrien ^a   Kaplan, David L ^b   Egles, Christophe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

concentration gradient; electrospinning; nerve growth factor; regenerative medicine; silk; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; MOLECULES; NANOFIBERS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SILK; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOACTIVE MOLECULES; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; DORSAL ROOT GANGLION NEURONS; ELECTROSPINNING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; FLUORESCENT MOLECULES; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

NANOFIBER; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SILK;

ANIMAL; AXON; BOMBYX; CELL SHAPE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BOMBYX; CELL SHAPE; FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NANOFIBERS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84907900773     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504159j     Document Type: Article

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