Multiple channel bridges for spinal cord injury: cellular characterization of host response

Y Yang, LD Laporte, ML Zelivyanskaya… - … Engineering Part A, 2009 - liebertpub.com
… to a porous multiple channel bridge, with channels of varying diameter, implanted in a rat
spinal cord hemisection model. Multiple channel bridges with controlled pore size and …

Long-term characterization of axon regeneration and matrix changes using multiple channel bridges for spinal cord regeneration

HM Tuinstra, DJ Margul, AG Goodman… - … Engineering Part A, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in loss of sensory and motor function … bridges containing
seven channels with a diameter of 250 μm were implanted in a rat spinal cord hemisection injury. …

Multifunctional, multichannel bridges that deliver neurotrophin encoding lentivirus for regeneration following spinal cord injury

HM Tuinstra, MO Aviles, S Shin, SJ Holland… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
… In this report, we investigate delivery of lentiviral vectors from multiple channel bridges as
a … delivery from multiple channel PLG bridges in a rat spinal cord hemisection injury model. …

Patterned transgene expression in multiple-channel bridges after spinal cord injury

L De Laporte, A Huang, MM Ducommun… - Acta biomaterialia, 2010 - Elsevier
spinal cord regeneration, bridges with multiple channels orient the extension of axons across
an injury [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], while gene delivery from the bridges … The spinal cord, however, …

Plasmid releasing multiple channel bridges for transgene expression after spinal cord injury

L De Laporte, Y Yang, ML Zelivyanskaya… - Molecular Therapy, 2009 - cell.com
multiple channel bridges were developed with the goal of investigating a permissive
environment for spinal cord … The bridges were made of PLG, which is biodegradable and has …

Local gene delivery from ECM-coated poly (lactide-co-glycolide) multiple channel bridges after spinal cord injury

L De Laporte, AL Yan, LD Shea - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
… (lipoplexes) from a multiple channel bridge in order to promote transgene expression in the
… The spinal cord bridges used in this report contain multiple linear guidance channels and …

Spinal progenitor-laden bridges support earlier axon regeneration following spinal cord injury

CM Dumont, MK Munsell, MA Carlson… - … Engineering Part A, 2018 - liebertpub.com
… investigated multichannel poly(lactide-co-glycolide) bridges, … of E14 spinal progenitors on
multichannel PLG bridges with the … and through the injury. We successfully delivered a modest …

Biomaterial bridges enable regeneration and re-entry of corticospinal tract axons into the caudal spinal cord after SCI: association with recovery of forelimb function

K Pawar, BJ Cummings, A Thomas, LD Shea, A Levine… - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
… apposition of PLG multichannel bridges with the spared spinal cord parenchyma following a
… Taken together, these data suggest that PLG bridges in a cervical mouse spinal cord lesion

Tissue bridges predict neuropathic pain emergence after spinal cord injury

D Pfyffer, K Vallotton, A Curt, P Freund - Journal of Neurology …, 2020 - jnnp.bmj.com
… as a second predictor variable (p=0.030) for the subgroup showing a width of ventral tissue
bridges ≤2.1 mm and separated it into two more nodes with ≤1.62 mm (n=24, node 3) and >…

Novel combination strategies to repair the injured mammalian spinal cord

MB Bunge - The journal of spinal cord medicine, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… After spinal cord InJury (SCI), many damaging tissue processes are initiated that lead to …
that they enabled axons to leave the SC bridge to grow into the spinal cord (24). They also have …