Nerve injuries occur by a variety of mechanisms, including traumatic wounds, thermal or chemical damage, myelin or axonal degeneration, and acute compression. These injuries typically result in the loss of motor function, sensory function, or both. Functional recovery is regained upon complete axonal regeneration, which includes remyelination and reinnervation (i.e., synapse formation) of the a...

This issue of Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering is volume two of a three volume series focused on neural engineering. The theme of this volume is " Strategies for Nervous System Repair. " These articles present a range of biomedical engineering strategies to improve outcomes with specific focus given to neural tissue engineering and biomaterial strategies for the repair of spinal cord ...

in vitro culture systems using bone marrow cells from balb/c mice were set up in medium supplemented with spleen-derived medium. bone marrow cells grown in spleen-derived medium gave rise to cultures containing >97% mast cells. the cells were used in polarisation chemotaxis assays with the intention of determining the effect of nerve tissue-derived neurotransmitters on mast cell migration. some...

objective(s)tissue engineering is an attractive science because it promises new therapeutic strategies for repairing organs that have lost functions due to damage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate induction effect of human gingival scaffold in tissue engineering for skin regeneration.materials and methodstissue samples were obtained from crown-lengthening procedures and wisdom teeth re...

background : in recent years tissue engineering developed to replace or repair damaged tissues using cell and biomaterial. one of the most important fields of tissue engineering is simulation of in vivo micro environment of body tissues. this study aimed to develop culture chamber and cell biomaterial sheet engineering for the reconstruction of cartilage tissue. methods : stainless steel cultur...

the aim of the present study was to develop a tissue-engineering approach through alginate gel molding to mimic cartilage tissue in a three-dimensional culture system. the perfusion biomimetic bioreactor was designed to mimic natural joint. the shear stresses exerting on the bioreactor chamber were calculated by computational fluid dynamic (cfd). several alginate/bovine chondrocyte constructs w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of tissue engineering nerve on repair of rat sciatic nerve defect. METHODS Forty-five rats with defective sciatic nerve were randomly divided into three groups. Rats in group A were repaired by acellular nerve grafts only. Rats in group B were repaired by tissue engineering nerve. In group C, rats were repaired by autogenous nerve grafts. After six and twel...