Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2013, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (16): 3010-3017.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.16.023

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Synthetic nerve conduit versus autogenous nerve transplantation for repair of peripheral nerve defects

Luo Peng1, Peng Qiu-liang2, Xiang Jian-ping3, Qi Jian3   

  1. 1 First Department of Orthopedics, Shenzhen Sixth People’s Hospital, Shenzhen  518054, Guangdong Province, China
    2 Department of Medicine, Guangzhou Zhongda Medical Device Company, Guangzhou  510275, Guangdong Province, China
    3 Department of Microscopy Traumatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou  510080, Guangdong Province, China
  • Received:2012-12-29 Revised:2013-02-19 Online:2013-04-16 Published:2013-04-16
  • Contact: Qi Jian, Doctor, Associate professor, Department of Microscopy Traumatic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, Guangdong Province, China speedsnow@126.com
  • About author:Luo Peng☆, Doctor, Physician, First Department of Orthopedics, Shenzhen Sixth People’s Hospital, Shenzhen 518054, Guangdong Province, China gaidihu0308@sina.com
  • Supported by:

     National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30571913*

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: As the biodegradable materials produced nerve conduit can be degraded in vivo and can avoid the nerve entrapment, it has attracted more and more attentions.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effect of autogenous nerve transplantation and three kinds of synthetic biodegradable materials produced nerve conduit for the repair of peripheral nerve defects.
METHODS: The effect of commonly used collagen nerve conduit, DL-lactic acid-ε-caprolactone nerve conduit, polyglycolic acid nerve conduit and autogenous nerve transplantation in the repair of peripheral nerve defects was evaluated with electrophysiological detection and morphological observation.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Theoretically, the nerve conduit has some advantages when compared with autogenous nerve transplantation, but there was significant difference in neural functional recovery between different synthetic materials produced nerve conduits. The repair effect of DL-lactic acid-ε-caprolactone nerve conduit was similar to that of autogenous nerve transplantation, and was considered as the ideal nerve conduit material; due to the disadvantages of polyglycolic acid nerve conduit which can inhibit its degradation, polyglycolic acid nerve conduit showed least effect in repairing peripheral nerve defects among three kinds of nerve conduits; collagen nerve conduit could improve the mechanical properties with the help of crosslinker, so the effect in repairing peripheral nerve defects was lower than DL-lactic acid-ε-caprolactone nerve conduit and higher than polyglycolic acid nerve conduit. These three kinds of nerve conduits have their potential shortcomings in nerve function regeneration, so that can not completely replace autogenous nerve transplantation. There still lacks of large sample long-term randomized controlled experiments to identify the performance price ratio between three kinds of nerve conduits. Further experimental observations are needed.

Key words: biomaterials, biomaterial academic discussion, peripheral nerve conduit, peripheral nerve defects, peripheral nerve defect restoration, neural regeneration, peripheral nerve, nerve transplantation, synthetic materials, biodegradable materials, DL-lactic acid-ε-caprolactone, polyglycolic acid, collagen, electrophysiology, pathology, National Natural Science Foundation of China

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