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    Researchers Regrow Damaged Nerves with Polymer and Protein

    January 25, 2020, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    We’re the first to show a nerve guide without any cells was able to bridge a large, 2-inch gap between the nerve stump and its target muscle,” said senior author Kacey Marra, Ph.D., professor of plastic surgery at Pitt and core faculty at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. “Our guide was comparable to, and in some ways better than, a nerve graft.” 

    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have created a biodegradable nerve guide – a polymer tube – filled with growth-promoting protein that can regenerate long sections of damaged nerves, without the need for transplanting stem cells or a donor nerve.

    So far, the technology has been tested in monkeys, and the results of those experiments appeared today in Science Translational Medicine.

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