Muangsanit, P;
Shipley, RJ;
Phillips, JB;
(2018)
Vascularization Strategies for Peripheral Nerve Tissue Engineering.
The Anatomical Record
, 301
(10)
pp. 1657-1667.
10.1002/ar.23919.
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Abstract
Vascularization plays a significant role in treating nerve injury, especially to avoid the central necrosis observed in nerve grafts for large and long nerve defects. It is known that sufficient vascularization can sustain cell survival and maintain cell integration within tissue-engineered constructs. Several studies have also shown that vascularization affects nerve regeneration. Motivated by these studies, vascularized nerve grafts have been developed using various different techniques, although donor site morbidity and limited nerve supply remain significant drawbacks. Tissue engineering provides an exciting alternative approach to prefabricate vascularized nerve constructs which could overcome the limitations of grafts. In this review article, we focus on the role of vascularization in nerve regeneration, discussing various approaches to generate vascularized nerve constructs and the contribution of tissue engineering and mathematical modeling to aid in developing vascularized engineered nerve constructs, illustrating these aspects with examples from our research experience.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Vascularization Strategies for Peripheral Nerve Tissue Engineering |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ar.23919 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.23919 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2018 The Authors. The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Wiley‐Liss, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
| Keywords: | degeneration, peripheral nerve, regeneration, therapies, vascularization |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Pharmacology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060257 |
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