Construction of Tissue-Engineered Nerve Conduits Seeded with Neurons Derived from Hair-Follicle Neural Crest Stem Cells

    January 2016 in “ Methods in molecular biology ”
    Fang Liu, Hao Lin, Chuansen Zhang
    Studysummary This report introduces a tissue-engineered nerve conduit combining hfNCSCs-derived neurons and acellular nerve grafts to potentially repair long-distance peripheral nerve injuries.
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