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A Hydrogel that could help Repair Damaged Nerves

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A conductive polymer hydrogel could help repair damaged peripheral nerves.
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05197

Injuries to peripheral nerves – tissues that transmit bioelectrical signals from the brain to the rest of the body – often result in chronic pain, neurologic disorders, paralysis or disability. Now, researchers have developed a stretchable conductive hydrogel that could someday be used to repair these types of nerves when there’s damage. They report their results in ACS Nano.

Injuries in which a peripheral nerve has been completely severed, such as a deep cut from an accident, are difficult to treat...

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