Current methods for repairing nerve injuries can be hit-and-miss. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk - from silkworms and spiders - to create a promising ...

Axons, the individual nerve fibres, can be regenerated, but the speed of repair is critical. The body grows its own scaffold bands that nerve connections regenerate along, but these bands last for ...

Crustacean Shell With Polyester Creates Mixed-fiber Material For Nerve Repair Date: June 18, 2009 Source: University of Washington Summary: Weaving chitosan, found in the shells of crabs and ...

Spider silk for nerve regeneration Nerve guides made of various materials, such as chitosan or collagen, have been an important surgical tool for nerve repair for about three decades. These are ...

Semmler, L., et al. (2023). Silk‐in‐Silk Nerve Guidance Conduits Enhance Regeneration in a Rat Sciatic Nerve Injury Model. Advanced Healthcare Materials. doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202203237.

The work is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. The researchers utilized a zirconium-based metal-organic framework (MOF), MOF-525, as the sensing material.

A new nerve repair technique yields better results and fewer side effects than other existing techniques, research shows. Traumatic nerve injuries are common, and when nerves are severed, they do ...

The cadaver-based nerve grafts are called allografts, and in some surgeries to repair damaged or severed nerves, they are replacing autografts - nerve grafts taken directly from a patient, most ...

A team from Northwestern University has developed a new material capable of neutralizing nerve gases. The zirconium-based NU-1000 is not only useful not only disposing of stockpiles of such toxins ...

The prospective, randomized study, conducted by UK Medical Director of Hand Surgery Service Dr. Brian Rinker and others, compared the nerve conduit to a newer technique called a nerve allograft. The ...

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