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SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
卷 12, 期 527, 页码 -出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aav7753
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- US Army [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- US Navy [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- NIH [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- US Air Force [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- US VA [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- US Health Affairs [W81XWH-14-2-0003]
- Swiss National Foundation
Severe injuries to peripheral nerves are challenging to repair. Standard-of-care treatment for nerve gaps >2 to 3 centimeters is autografting; however, autografting can result in neuroma formation, loss of sensory function at the donor site, and increased operative time. To address the need for a synthetic nerve conduit to treat large nerve gaps, we investigated a biodegradable poly(caprolactone) (PCL) conduit with embedded double-walled polymeric microspheres encapsulating glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) capable of providing a sustained release of GDNF for >50 days in a 5-centimeter nerve defect in a rhesus macaque model. The GDNF-eluting conduit (PCL/GDNF) was compared to a median nerve autograft and a PCL conduit containing empty microspheres (PCL/Empty). Functional testing demonstrated similar functional recovery between the PCL/GDNF-treated group (75.64 +/- 10.28%) and the autograft-treated group (77.49 +/- 19.28%); both groups were statistically improved compared to PCL/Empty-treated group (44.95 +/- 26.94%). Nerve conduction velocity 1 year after surgery was increased in the PCL/GDNF-treated macaques (31.41 +/- 15.34 meters/second) compared to autograft (25.45 +/- 3.96 meters/second) and PCL/Empty (12.60 +/- 3.89 meters/second) treatment. Histological analyses included assessment of Schwann cell presence, myelination of axons, nerve fiber density, and g-ratio. PCL/GDNF group exhibited a statistically greater average area occupied by individual Schwann cells at the distal nerve (11.60 +/- 33.01 mu m(2)) compared to autograft (4.62 +/- 3.99 mu m(2)) and PCL/Empty (4.52 +/- 5.16 mu m(2)) treatment groups. This study demonstrates the efficacious bridging of a long peripheral nerve gap in a nonhuman primate model using an acellular, biodegradable nerve conduit.
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