Silk as a Multifunctional Biomaterial Substrate for Reduced Glial Scarring around Brain-Penetrating Electrodes

Physical and chemical aspects of stabilization of compounds in silk

(2012) Eleanor M. Pritchard et al.   BIOPOLYMERS

Co-solvent mediated thermal stabilization of chondroitinase ABC I form Proteus vulgaris

(2012) Mahdieh Nazari-Robati et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Patterned Silk Film Scaffolds for Aligned Lamellar Bone Tissue Engineering

(2012) Lee W. Tien et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Ultrafast resorbing polymers for use as carriers for cortical neural probes

(2011) Dan Lewitus et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Multifunctionalized Electrospun Silk Fibers Promote Axon Regeneration in the Central Nervous System

(2011) Corinne R. Wittmer et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Spatially Controlled Delivery of Neurotrophic Factors in Silk Fibroin–Based Nerve Conduits for Peripheral Nerve Repair

(2011) Yen-Chih Lin et al.   ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY

Silk Fibroin Conduits

(2011) Amir Mahan Ghaznavi et al.   ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY

Regulation of Silk Material Structure by Temperature-Controlled Water Vapor Annealing

(2011) Xiao Hu et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Regenerative potential of silk conduits in repair of peripheral nerve injury in adult rats

(2011) W. Huang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Silk fibroin biomaterials for controlled release drug delivery

(2011) Eleanor M Pritchard et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

Sustained release of neurotrophin-3 and chondroitinase ABC from electrospun collagen nanofiber scaffold for spinal cord injury repair

(2011) Ting Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Development of a stimuli-responsive polymer nanocomposite toward biologically optimized, MEMS-based neural probes

(2011) A E Hess et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

In vivodeployment of mechanically adaptive nanocomposites for intracortical microelectrodes

(2011) J P Harris et al.   Journal of Neural Engineering

Mechanically adaptive intracortical implants improve the proximity of neuronal cell bodies

(2011) J P Harris et al.   Journal of Neural Engineering

Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin

(2011) Danielle N Rockwood et al.   Nature Protocols

Implant Size and Fixation Mode Strongly Influence Tissue Reactions in the CNS

(2011) Jonas Thelin et al.   PLoS One

Repair of Rat Sciatic Nerve Gap by a Silk Fibroin-Based Scaffold Added with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

(2011) Yumin Yang et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

A silk platform that enables electrophysiology and targeted drug delivery in brain astroglial cells

(2010) Valentina Benfenati et al.   BIOMATERIALS

The surface immobilization of the neural adhesion molecule L1 on neural probes and its effect on neuronal density and gliosis at the probe/tissue interface

(2010) Erdrin Azemi et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Controlled release of chondroitinase ABC in chitosan-based scaffolds and PDLLA microspheres

(2010) Yi-Cheng Huang et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

Gelatine-embedded electrodes—a novel biocompatible vehicle allowing implantation of highly flexible microelectrodes

(2010) Gustav Lind et al.   Journal of Neural Engineering

A Systematic Review of Directly Applied Biologic Therapies for Acute Spinal Cord Injury

(2010) Brian K. Kwon et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA

Biocompatibility Assessment of Insulating Silicone Polymer Coatings Using an in vitro Glial Scar Assay

(2010) Anil Kumar H. Achyuta et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Effect of Hydration on Silk Film Material Properties

(2010) Brian D. Lawrence et al.   MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE

Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics

(2010) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Water-insoluble silk films with silk I structure

(2009) Qiang Lu et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Cognitive Neural Prosthetics

(2009) Richard A. Andersen et al.   Annual Review of Psychology

Trophically and topographically functionalized silk fibroin nerve conduits for guided peripheral nerve regeneration

(2009) S. Madduri et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Antiepileptic effects of silk-polymer based adenosine release in kindled rats

(2009) Cory Szybala et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Development and characterization ofin vivoflexible electrodes compatible with large tissue displacements

(2009) B A Wester et al.   Journal of Neural Engineering

Control protocol for robust in vitro glial scar formation around microwires: Essential roles of bFGF and serum in gliosis

(2009) Vadim S. Polikov et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Flavopiridol reduces the impedance of neural prostheses in vivo without affecting recording quality

(2009) Erin K. Purcell et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS

Sustained delivery of thermostabilized chABC enhances axonal sprouting and functional recovery after spinal cord injury

(2009) Hyunjung Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In vivo degradation of three-dimensional silk fibroin scaffolds

(2008) Yongzhong Wang et al.   BIOMATERIALS

A System for Neural Recording and Closed-Loop Intracortical Microstimulation in Awake Rodents

(2008) S. Venkatraman et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

In Vivo Penetration Mechanics and Mechanical Properties of Mouse Brain Tissue at Micrometer Scales

(2008) A.A. Sharp et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Processing methods to control silk fibroin film biomaterial features

(2008) Brian D. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

CNS injury, glial scars, and inflammation: Inhibitory extracellular matrices and regeneration failure

(2007) Michael T. Fitch et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Demonstration of cortical recording using novel flexible polymer neural probes

(2007) André Mercanzini et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL