Abstract
Multi-channeled nerve guidance conduit is a prospective way to repair peripheral nerve injury, which is still difficult to be fabricated. A novel extrusion-stretching method was utilized in this study to produce multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) loaded multi-channeled nerve conduits with improved flexibility and versatility. The channels and geography of the conduits were tunable. The results showed that the mechanical properties of the multi-channeled nerve conduits were suitable for peripheral nerve restoration. MWCNTs increased the biocompatibility of the multi-channeled nerve conduits. This study proved that the MWCNTs loaded multi-channeled produced by extrusion-stretching method have great potential to repair peripheral nerve injury.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-9 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 8 |
Early online date | 6 Apr 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published online - 6 Apr 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Polymers and Plastics
- General Chemical Engineering
- Analytical Chemistry
- Extrusion-stretching method
- multi-channels
- MWCNTs
- peripheral nerve repair
- nerve guidance conduits