Publications by authors named "Mindy I Ezra"
Article Synopsis
- Major peripheral nerve injury (PNI) presents difficulties in functional restoration due to slow axon growth and degeneration of the regenerative pathway without axons.
- Researchers are creating tissue-engineered nerve grafts (TENGs) using porcine neurons and stretching techniques to provide living axons that help guide the regeneration of host axons and maintain nerve pathways.
- TENGs have shown success in accelerating axon regeneration across both short (1 cm) and long (5 cm) nerve defects in pigs, achieving recovery comparable to traditional autograft methods, and showing promise for treating currently unrepairable PNIs.
