3D printed personalized nerve guide conduits for precision repair of peripheral nerve defects

K Liu, L Yan, R Li, Z Song, J Ding, B Liu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The treatment of peripheral nerve defects has always been one of the most challenging
clinical practices in neurosurgery. Currently, nerve autograft is the preferred treatment …

Gelatin as biomaterial for tissue engineering

MC Echave, LS Burgo, JL Pedraz… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Tissue engineering is considered one of the most important therapeutic strategies of
regenerative medicine. The main objective of these new technologies is the development of …

Electrically conductive hydrogel nerve guidance conduits for peripheral nerve regeneration

J Park, J Jeon, B Kim, MS Lee, S Park… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Peripheral nerve injuries are serious conditions, and surgical treatment has critical
limitations. Therefore, nerve guidance conduits (NGCs) are proposed as an alternative. In …

A biomaterials approach to peripheral nerve regeneration: bridging the peripheral nerve gap and enhancing functional recovery

W Daly, L Yao, D Zeugolis… - Journal of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Peripheral nerve conduits: technology update

D Arslantunali, T Dursun, D Yucel… - Medical Devices …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Peripheral nerve injury is a worldwide clinical problem which could lead to loss of neuronal
communication along sensory and motor nerves between the central nervous system (CNS) …

Regeneration of peripheral nerves by nerve guidance conduits: Influence of design, biopolymers, cells, growth factors, and physical stimuli

MD Sarker, S Naghieh, AD McInnes, DJ Schreyer… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Injuries to the peripheral nervous system (PNS) cause neuropathies that lead to weakness
and paralysis, poor or absent sensation, unpleasant and painful neuropathies, and impaired …

Progress on triboelectric nanogenerator with stretchability, self-healability and bio-compatibility

K Parida, J Xiong, X Zhou, PS Lee - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Remarkable progress has been made recently in the development of soft materials and
devices for human-machine interface. Emerging soft-electronics with skin-inspired …

Bioprinting functional tissues

AN Leberfinger, S Dinda, Y Wu, SV Koduru, V Ozbolat… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the numerous lives that have been saved since the first successful procedure in
1954, organ transplant has several shortcomings which prevent it from becoming a more …

Biomaterials for the development of peripheral nerve guidance conduits

AR Nectow, KG Marra, DL Kaplan - Tissue Engineering Part B …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Currently, surgical treatments for peripheral nerve injury are less than satisfactory. The gold
standard of treatment for peripheral nerve gaps> 5 mm is the autologous nerve graft; …

Protein-based fiber materials in medicine: a review

KG DeFrates, R Moore, J Borgesi, G Lin, T Mulderig… - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Fibrous materials have garnered much interest in the field of biomedical engineering due to
their high surface-area-to-volume ratio, porosity, and tunability. Specifically, in the field of …