Nerve guide conduits for peripheral nerve injury repair: A review on design, materials and fabrication methods

S Vijayavenkataraman - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Peripheral nerves can sustain injuries due to loss of structure and/or function of peripheral
nerves because of accident, trauma and other causes, which leads to partial or complete …

Modern trends for peripheral nerve repair and regeneration: beyond the hollow nerve guidance conduit

CR Carvalho, JM Oliveira, RL Reis - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Peripheral nerve repair and regeneration remains among the greatest challenges in tissue
engineering and regenerative medicine. Even though peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) are …

Traction of 3D and 4D printing in the healthcare industry: from drug delivery and analysis to regenerative medicine

K Osouli-Bostanabad, T Masalehdan… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) printing and 3D bioprinting are promising technologies for a broad
range of healthcare applications from frontier regenerative medicine and tissue engineering …

Alginate-based hydrogels and tubes, as biological macromolecule-based platforms for peripheral nerve tissue engineering: a review

WK Abdelbasset, SA Jasim, SK Sharma… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Unlike the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system (PNS) has an inherent
capacity to regenerate following injury. However, in the case of large nerve defects where …

Biomaterials for neural tissue engineering

LR Doblado, C Martínez-Ramos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The therapy of neural nerve injuries that involve the disruption of axonal pathways or axonal
tracts has taken a new dimension with the development of tissue engineering techniques …

Peripheral nerve conduit: materials and structures

S Houshyar, A Bhattacharyya… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) are the most common injury types to affect the nervous
system. Restoration of nerve function after PNI is a challenging medical issue. Extended …

MSC‐derived exosomes‐based therapy for peripheral nerve injury: a novel therapeutic strategy

R Dong, Y Liu, Y Yang, H Wang, Y Xu… - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although significant advances have been made in synthetic nerve conduits and surgical
techniques, complete regeneration following peripheral nerve injury (PNI) remains far from …

Approaches to peripheral nerve repair: generations of biomaterial conduits yielding to replacing autologous nerve grafts in craniomaxillofacial surgery

R Gaudin, C Knipfer, A Henningsen… - BioMed research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Peripheral nerve injury is a common clinical entity, which may arise due to traumatic,
tumorous, or even iatrogenic injury in craniomaxillofacial surgery. Despite advances in …

Aligned electroactive electrospun fibrous scaffolds for peripheral nerve regeneration

F Xiong, S Wei, S Wu, W Jiang, B Li… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Effective repair and functional recovery of large peripheral nerve deficits are urgent clinical
needs. A biofunctional electroactive scaffold typically acts as a “bridge” for the repair of large …

Advances in hybrid fabrication toward hierarchical tissue constructs

PD Dalton, TBF Woodfield, V Mironov… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The diversity of manufacturing processes used to fabricate 3D implants, scaffolds, and tissue
constructs is continuously increasing. This growing number of different applicable fabrication …