Unraveling the mechanistic effects of electric field stimulation towards directing stem cell fate and function: A tissue engineering perspective

G Thrivikraman, SK Boda, B Basu - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Electric field (EF) stimulation can play a vital role in eliciting appropriate stem cell response.
Such an approach is recently being established to guide stem cell differentiation through …

Restoring sensorimotor function through intracortical interfaces: progress and looming challenges

SJ Bensmaia, LE Miller - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
The loss of a limb or paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury has devastating
consequences on quality of life. One approach to restoring lost sensory and motor abilities in …

In vivo spatiotemporal dynamics of astrocyte reactivity following neural electrode implantation

SP Savya, F Li, S Lam, SM Wellman, KC Stieger… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain computer interfaces (BCIs), including penetrating microelectrode arrays, enable both
recording and stimulation of neural cells. However, device implantation inevitably causes …

A mosquito inspired strategy to implant microprobes into the brain

AJ Shoffstall, S Srinivasan, M Willis, AM Stiller… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Mosquitos are among the deadliest insects on the planet due to their ability to transmit
diseases like malaria through their bite. In order to bite, a mosquito must insert a set of micro …

Biomaterials and glia: Progress on designs to modulate neuroinflammation

C Tsui, K Koss, MA Churchward, KG Todd - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Microglia are multi-functional cells that play a vital role in establishing and maintaining the
function of the nervous system and determining the fate of neurons following injury or …

Biological and bionic hands: natural neural coding and artificial perception

SJ Bensmaia - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The first decade and a half of the twenty-first century brought about two major innovations in
neuroprosthetics: the development of anthropomorphic robotic limbs that replicate much of …

Influence of probe flexibility and gelatin embedding on neuronal density and glial responses to brain implants

P Köhler, A Wolff, F Ejserholm, L Wallman… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
To develop long-term high quality communication between brain and computer, a key issue
is how to reduce the adverse foreign body responses. Here, the impact of probe flexibility …

Spinal cord bioelectronic interfaces: opportunities in neural recording and clinical challenges

L Jiang, B Woodington… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Bioelectronic stimulation of the spinal cord has demonstrated significant progress in the
restoration of motor function in spinal cord injury (SCI). The proximal, uninjured spinal cord …

Stable, long-term single-neuronal recording from the rat spinal cord with flexible carbon nanotube fiber electrodes

X Liu, Z Xu, X Fu, Y Liu, H Jia, Z Yang… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Flexible implantable electrodes enable months-long stable recording of single-
unit signals from rat brains. Despite extensive efforts in the development of flexible probes …

A Hyperflexible Electrode Array for Long‐Term Recording and Decoding of Intraspinal Neuronal Activity

J Fan, X Li, P Wang, F Yang, B Zhao, J Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Neural interfaces for stable access to the spinal cord (SC) electrical activity can benefit
patients with motor dysfunctions. Invasive high‐density electrodes can directly extract …