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 ...

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 ...

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 material speeded up nerve repair in rats by 33 percent, and now heads to development and testing on humans. Prof. Hemi Rotenberg, one of the inventors, said that after further development it ...

Posted: Oct 12, 2011 Biofunctionalized silk nanofibers to repair the optic nerve (Nanowerk Spotlight) A main difference between central and peripheral nervous system is the lack of regeneration after ...

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 ...

Worldwide, sutures are the primary method used in peripheral nerve repair, accounting for nearly 90% of the 700,000 nerve repair procedures conducted each year in the US.

Nerve repair, with help from stem cells University of Pennsylvania researchers teamed up to create a novel approach to surgically repairing injured peripheral nerves that relies on the versatility ...

Investigation of the mechanisms for wireless nerve stimulation without active electrodes. Bioelectromagnetics, 2023; DOI: 10.1002/bem.22486 ...

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 ...

Carbon nanotubes exhibit interesting characteristics rendering them particularly suited to the construction of special hybrid devices consisting of biological issue and synthetic material. These ...