Nerve Repair: A Conducting-Polymer Platform with Biodegradable Fibers for Stimulation and Guidance of Axonal Growth (Adv. Mater. 43/2009)

✍ Scribed by Anita F. Quigley; Joselito M. Razal; Brianna C. Thompson; Simon E. Moulton; Magdalena Kita; Elizabeth L. Kennedy; Graeme M. Clark; Gordon G. Wallace; Robert M. I. Kapsa

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 333 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200990160

✦ Synopsis

Effective functional innervation of medical bionic devices, as well as re-innervation of target tissue in nerve and spinal cord injuries, requires a platform that can stimulate and orientate neural growth. Gordon Wallace and co-workers report on p. 4393 that conducting and nonconducting biodegradable polymers show excellent potential as suitable hybrid substrata for neural regeneration and may form the basis of electrically active conduits designed to accelerate nerve repair.