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    Repairing Peripheral Nerves: Is there a Role for Carbon Nanotubes?
    (Advanced healthcare materials, 2016-06-08) Oprych, Karen M.; Whitby, Raymond L D; Mikhalovsky, Sergey V.; Tomlins, Paul; Adu, Jimi
    Peripheral nerve injury continues to be a major global health problem that can result in debilitating neurological deficits and neuropathic pain. Current state-of-the-art treatment involves reforming the damaged nerve pathway using a nerve autograft. Engineered nerve repair conduits can provide an alternative to the nerve autograft avoiding the inevitable tissue damage caused at the graft donor site. Commercially available nerve repair conduits are currently only considered suitable for repairing small nerve lesions; the design and performance of engineered conduits requires significant improvements to enable their use for repairing larger nerve defects.