Technologies for repairing peripheral nerve injury Progress in domestic and foreign investigations

摘要

OBJECTIVE: Studies on the repair of peripheral nerve injury have achieved great progresses in recent years. Clinical nerve repair prefers microsurgery, while fundamental researches focus on tissue engineering and gene therapy. Recently, microencapsulation technique rises up as a new treatment therapy. This article mainly summarized the repairing techniques referred above, in order to make the basis for further research. DATA SOURCES: A computer-based online search of Pubmed database was undertaken to identify articles about injury and repair of peripheral nerve published in English between January 1997 and May 2007 using