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New Technique to Create Engineered Nerve Structures to Repair Spinal Cord Injuries Described in Tissue Engineering

Repair of extensive spinal cord injuries may benefit from a novel technique that creates long nerve constructs containing mechanically elongated axons that can span and regenerate the damaged area, according to a report in the January 2006 issue (Volume 12, Number 1) of Tissue Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The paper is available free online ahead of publication at www.liebertpub.com/ten.

Coaxing nerve cells to grow in the body and to bridge the long gaps created by extensive spinal cord injuries remains a huge challenge. Akira Iwata, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and at Cephalon, Inc. (Westchester, PA), in a paper entitled, ...

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posted @ Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:00 AM by host