Collagen is the main structural protein of most hard and soft tissues in animals and the
human body, which plays an important role in maintaining the biological and structural …

A variety of engineered scaffolds have been created for tissue engineering using polymers,
ceramics and their composites. Biomimicry has been adopted for majority of the three …

Peripheral nerve injury is a common disease that affects more than 20 million people in the
United States alone and remains a major burden to society. The current gold standard …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a perplexing traumatic disease that habitually gives ride to
permanent disability, motor, and sensory impairment. Despite the existence of several …

Tissue Engineering (TE) is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses materials science in
combination with biological and engineering sciences. In recent years, an increase in the …

Background To cope with the limitations faced by autograft acquisitions particularly for
multiple nerve injuries, artificial nerve conduit has been introduced by researchers as a …

Electrically conducting polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene, and their
derivatives (mainly aniline oligomer and poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)) with good …

Microsurgical techniques for the treatment of large peripheral nerve injuries (such as the
gold standard autograft) and its main clinically approved alternative—hollow nerve guidance …

Artificial nerve guide conduits have the advantage over autografts in terms of their
availability and ease of fabrication. However, clinical outcomes associated with the use of …

Nerve diseases including acute injury such as peripheral nerve injury (PNI), spinal cord
injury (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic disease like neurodegeneration …