Synthetic Nerve Conduit Bridges the Gap in Arm Nerve Repair (2 of 10) (IMAGE)

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Synthetic Nerve Conduit Bridges the Gap in Arm Nerve Repair (2 of 10)

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A cross-section image of the nerve conduit embedded in microspheres. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 22, 2020, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by N.B. Fadia at University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA; and colleagues was titled, "Long-gap peripheral nerve repair through sustained release of a neurotrophic factor in nonhuman primates."

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[Credit: N.B. Fadia <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)]

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