Sentences with phrase «nerve graft»

The company's products include Avance Nerve Graft, AxoGuard Nerve Protector and AxoGuard Nerve Connector.

These patients were already candidates for standard DBS and agreed to undergo the nerve graft after being informed of the risks and benefits.

In the current study, Yu - Shang Lee, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic, together with Jerry Silver, PhD, of Case Western Reserve Medical School, and others, used a chemical that promotes cell growth along with a scar - busting enzyme to create a more hospitable environment for the nerve graft at the injury site.

Because the patients in the trial were already candidates for DBS, their insurance pays for all of the routine procedure (excluding the costs associated with the nerve graft).

Furthermore, the nerve graft procedure uses existing technology and didn't require development of expensive new tools.

So far, five Parkinson's patients have undergone the combined DBS - nerve graft procedure, out of six allotted spaces in the trial.

Apart from limited nerve grafts, doctors have only been able to use synthetic conduits (interposition graft), to reconnect severed nerves so that the nerve fibres can grow back together.

This might allow skin and long, thin nerve grafts to be grown in the lab.

«Some groups have shown that these nerve grafts help in the function of the animal,» she says.

For decades, scientists have experimented with using nerve grafts as a way of bridging the spinal cord injury site in an attempt to recover lost function following spinal cord injury.

Not exact matches

The guide was then implanted into the rat by surgically grafting it to the cut ends of the nerve.

They were able to do so by building on an experiment showing that grafting a peripheral nerve into the space between a severed spinal cord in an animal model brought about nerve regeneration (albeit limited).

The nerve tissue is obtained and implanted during DBS surgery, which means that the patients do not need an additional surgery for the grafting procedure and still receive all the benefits of the DBS therapy.

A study published in Cell last year demonstrated that human and rat stem cells could be grafted onto the spinal cord of paralyzed rats, forming new nerves capable of communicating across the injury site.

The current standard of care, called an autograft, involves surgically removing a less important nerve, like the one running down the back of the calf, and grafting it into the damaged area.