Design of an animal model for testing alginate tissue repair scaffolds in spinal cord injury
Current treatments for spinal cord injury (SCI) are extremely limited due to the fact that the central nervous system lacks the intrinsic ability to regenerate, and constitutes a poor environment for regenerative axon growth. Nerve tissue engineering is an emerging field with the aim of repairing or...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-05-2064 |