Design and fabrication of a nerve-stretching device for in vivo mechanotransduction of peripheral nerve fibers

The potential of peripheral nerves to regenerate under the effect of axial tensile forces was not previously extensively explored due to the lack of capabilities of translating ex vivo axonal stretch-growth to in vivo studies, until the development of a nerve stretcher. The nerve stretcher, which we...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Sana Ullah Sahar, Matthew Barton, Geoffrey Tansley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:HardwareX
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067220300018