A self-powered implantable and bioresorbable electrostimulation device for biofeedback bone fracture healing

G Yao, L Kang, C Li, S Chen, Q Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Electrostimulation has been recognized as a promising nonpharmacological treatment in
orthopedics to promote bone fracture healing. However, clinical applications have been …

Self-powered implantable electrical stimulator for osteoblasts' proliferation and differentiation

J Tian, R Shi, Z Liu, H Ouyang, M Yu, C Zhao, Y Zou… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures were considered as worldwide diseases
and arose wide public concern, the costs for incident osteoporosis-related fractures in …

Electrical stimulation system based on electroactive biomaterials for bone tissue engineering

X Zhang, T Wang, Z Zhang, H Liu, L Li, A Wang… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Traumatic injuries can lead to large bone defects under extreme conditions, which usually
take a long recovery period, while the prognosis is poor. Endogenous electric field, as one …

Self-powered pulsed direct current stimulation system for enhancing osteogenesis in MC3T3-E1

Y Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, X Cui, Z Xiang, J Bai, D Jiang… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Promoting the differentiation of osteoblasts is critical to maintain bone homeostasis for
treatment osteoporosis and fracture healing. For these orthopedic diseases, a portable …

Combining electrical stimulation and tissue engineering to treat large bone defects in a rat model

L Leppik, H Zhihua, S Mobini… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Bone Tissue engineering (BTE) has recently been introduced as an alternative to
conventional treatments for large non-healing bone defects. BTE approaches mimic …

Nonadjacent wireless electrotherapy for tissue repair by a 3D-printed bioresorbable fully soft triboelectric nanogenerator

B Luo, Q Zhou, W Chen, L Sun, L Yang, Y Guo… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrotherapy is a promising tissue repair technique. However, electrotherapy devices are
frequently complex and must be placed adjacent to injured tissue, thereby limiting their …

Bone bioelectricity: what have we learned in the past 160 years?

BM Isaacson, RD Bloebaum - Journal of biomedical materials …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The direct relationship between bone strain and electric fields has spurred continual interest
in the field of bioelectricity over the past 160 years. It has been reported that stress …

Pretreating mesenchymal stem cells with electrical stimulation causes sustained long-lasting pro-osteogenic effects

M Eischen-Loges, KMC Oliveira, MB Bhavsar… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Background Electrical stimulation (ES) has a long history of successful use in the clinical
treatment of refractory, non-healing bone fractures and has recently been proposed as an …

Electrical stimulation-based bone fracture treatment, if it works so well why do not more surgeons use it?

MB Bhavsar, Z Han, T DeCoster, L Leppik… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Electrical stimulation (EStim) has been proven to promote bone
healing in experimental settings and has been used clinically for many years and yet it has …

A host-coupling bio-nanogenerator for electrically stimulated osteogenesis

B Yu, Z Qiao, J Cui, M Lian, Y Han, X Zhang, W Wang… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Implantable self-powered generators (ISPGs) have been extensively explored as energy
supplies for driving electronics and electrically stimulated therapeutics in vivo. However …